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Item Name: Gardening 1961 - 1968

Item ID: Garden-F

Collector Rating: 1

Pamphlets Used to Earn this Badge

Requirements January 1957 until June 1972

1. Grow at least six vegetables in the family garden, or other suitable plot, from preparation of soil through harvesting.

2. State the food value of nine common vegetables, including three root or tuber crops, three vegetables which bear (fruits) above ground and three leafy greens.

3. Tell what you did to control insects or diseases which attacked your garden. Tell where and how to use a contact insecticide, a stomach poison and a fungicide.

4. Do three of the following: (a) Test 100 garden seeds for germination. (b) Make a hotbed or cold frame, or grow plants in same. (c) Clean, grade, bunch or pack any three vegetables for market. (d) Exhibit one or more of the vegetables you have grown, at a harvest festival, fair, or other suitable occasion. (e) Make a storage bin or pit for home use. (f) Preserve or store a portion of the crop grown, and describe the process. (g) carry out equivalent project approved by the Counselor.

This merit badge may be earned as a 4-H'er by completing a club project in that subject or as an FFA member by meeting these requirements through the FFA supervised farming program.