Grow Your Own Flashcards
What are five considerations when thinking about what to grow?
- Quality and taste
- Organic crops
- Time available
- Continuous harvest
- Room to grow
What are seven options for where to grow crops?
- Traditional beds
- Raised beds
- Under cover
- Containers
- Walls and fences
- Convenient cover
- Mixed planting
Name three types of containers for growing.
- Window boxes
- Growing bags
- Hanging baskets
Name 15 pieces of tools and equipment.
- Spades and forks
- Hand fork and trowel
- Rake
- Secateurs
- Hoes
- Pruning saw
- Garden fleece
- Netting
- Cloches
- Canes and pea sticks
- Seed and module trays
- String and raffia
- Garden trugs
- Dibber
- Hand sprayers
What are five ways to ensure healthy crops?
- Crop rotation
- General hygiene
- Barriers, traps, and controls
- Resistant varieties
- Organic growing
What are the three groups of crops for crop rotation?
- Potatoes and tomatoes
- Brassicas, such as cabbages and broccoli
- Legumes, such as peas and beans, with onions and roots, such as carrots and parsnips
What are three ways to ensure a continuous harvest?
- Intercropping
- Catch cropping
- Successional sowing
What is intercropping?
Using small crops in the gaps between large crops
What is catch cropping?
Sowing fast-maturing crops - usually those that take about 30 days or so to mature from seed - before or after slower-growing ones
What are three ways of storing vegetables?
- Freezing
- Preserving
- Clamping
What are five ways of growing fruits?
- Dual-purpose fruit
- Mixed planting
- Patio container
- Dwarf varieties
- Wall-trained fruit
What are the two options for buying new fruit plants/?
Container-grown plants
Bare-root plants
What are five ways to manage a glut of fruit?
Evening out the harvest
Storing apples and pears
Freezing fruit
Preserving
Making jams, sauces, and cordials
