Grow Your Own Flashcards

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What are five considerations when thinking about what to grow?

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  1. Quality and taste
  2. Organic crops
  3. Time available
  4. Continuous harvest
  5. Room to grow
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What are seven options for where to grow crops?

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  1. Traditional beds
  2. Raised beds
  3. Under cover
  4. Containers
  5. Walls and fences
  6. Convenient cover
  7. Mixed planting
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Name three types of containers for growing.

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  1. Window boxes
  2. Growing bags
  3. Hanging baskets
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Name 15 pieces of tools and equipment.

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  1. Spades and forks
  2. Hand fork and trowel
  3. Rake
  4. Secateurs
  5. Hoes
  6. Pruning saw
  7. Garden fleece
  8. Netting
  9. Cloches
  10. Canes and pea sticks
  11. Seed and module trays
  12. String and raffia
  13. Garden trugs
  14. Dibber
  15. Hand sprayers
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What are five ways to ensure healthy crops?

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  1. Crop rotation
  2. General hygiene
  3. Barriers, traps, and controls
  4. Resistant varieties
  5. Organic growing
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What are the three groups of crops for crop rotation?

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  1. Potatoes and tomatoes
  2. Brassicas, such as cabbages and broccoli
  3. Legumes, such as peas and beans, with onions and roots, such as carrots and parsnips
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What are three ways to ensure a continuous harvest?

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  1. Intercropping
  2. Catch cropping
  3. Successional sowing
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What is intercropping?

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Using small crops in the gaps between large crops

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What is catch cropping?

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Sowing fast-maturing crops - usually those that take about 30 days or so to mature from seed - before or after slower-growing ones

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What are three ways of storing vegetables?

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  1. Freezing
  2. Preserving
  3. Clamping
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What are five ways of growing fruits?

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  1. Dual-purpose fruit
  2. Mixed planting
  3. Patio container
  4. Dwarf varieties
  5. Wall-trained fruit
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What are the two options for buying new fruit plants/?

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Container-grown plants
Bare-root plants

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What are five ways to manage a glut of fruit?

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Evening out the harvest
Storing apples and pears
Freezing fruit
Preserving
Making jams, sauces, and cordials

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