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Item Name: Gardening 1939 - 1943

Item ID: Garden-C5

Collector Rating: 1

Pamphlets Used to Earn this Badge

Requirements April 1932 until October 1939

1. Do two of the following things:

(a) Operate a garden plot of not less than 20 feet square and show a net profit of not less than $5 on the season's work. Keep an accurate crop report and show exhibit of garden products produced.

(b) Grow 1/20 acre of potatoes or other garden crops such as tomatoes, sweet corn and popcorn. Select the hills from which seed potatoes are to be taken. Grade potatoes in three divisions-market, medium and culls. Keep an accurate crop report of the season's work.

(c) Keep both back and front yards in good condition for the summer vacation of three months, which will include care of garden, flowers and shrubs, mowing the lawn, keeping the yard neat and clean. Keep an accurate record of the vacation's work.

(d) Build a back-yard trellis, and grow a covering of vines for it in a season's or year's time.

2. Submit a detailed account stating how the work chosen was performed.

OR

Comply with the 4H Club or Home Project Requirements in Gardening as follows:

1. Own or rent ground as required by leaders.
2. Do all work on garden for one season.
3. Keep accurate cost account records.
4. Exhibit products as required by state and county leaders in charge.
5. Make a complete report of his records and experiences as required by leaders.

Requirements October 1939 until September 1944

To obtain this Merit Badge, a Scout must meet Requirement No. 4 and any other four of the seven following requirements:

1. Name and explain the food value of each:

(a) 5 kinds of root vegetables.
(b) 3 common garden herbs and 3 leafy vegetable greens grown in his locality.

2. Make a plate and blotter tester for garden seed and explain how vitality tests are made. Test 100 garden seed in this tester and show vitality record.

3. Make a hot bed not less than 4 ft. long x 3 ft. wide; fill and prepare its seed bed for planting.

4. Raise from seed in a box or cold frame 20 of each of two of the following vegetables and transplant them to a garden plot: tomatoes, peppers, sweet potatoes, cabbage, lettuce.

5. Demonstrate how to control at least three insects or diseases injurious to vegetable crops.

6. Demonstrate how to clean, grade, and bunch or pack for market any three vegetables.

7. Exhibit at least three kinds of high quality vegetables, one variety of each, at community, county, state fair or other public event.

OR

Comply with 4-H Club or Home Project requirements in Vegetable Gardening by carrying out one of the following projects, viz., A or B:

(A) Operate a garden of not less than 400* square feet. Grow at least six (6) different kinds of vegetables. Make a diagram of the garden with records of varieties used, planting and maturity dates, and quantities harvested. Keep a brief running account of operations for the garden as a whole and for the various crops.

(B) Grow 1/20 acres or more of a single vegetable crop, such as tomatoes, potatoes, sweet corn or popcorn. Keep record of how he grows the crop from planting to harvest, and of costs, yields and returns.

In both A and B record must be submitted and completed project approved by leaders in charge of 4-H Club Work or agriculture teacher in charge of Home Project Work.

* Garden size should conform to minimum standards set by State, County or School Leaders.

Any Scout not a member of a 4-H Club or agricultural class may if he wishes, qualify by fulfilling A or B, provided Merit Badge Counselor and local leaders of 4-H Clubs or agricultural teachers agree that the work has been properly done.