Introduction to Vegetable Gardening

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Introduction to Vegetable Gardening

• What is a vegetable?
• What is a fruit?

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What is a vegetable?

• A vegetable is typically, an ________________
  plant used for the main part of a meal.
• A vegetable is defined by use of the plant part
  and not by some common botanical characteristic

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What is a fruit?

• A botanical definition for fruit is the mature
  __________________ of the plant, consisting of
  the seeds and their coating
• A more general definition for fruit is the
  ______________________ part of a plant the seed
  of plants or the part that contains the seed

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What is vegetable gardening?

• Gardening is the ___________________ of
  vegetables (food) for ones own
  ___________________

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Why do people vegetable garden?

• Utilitarian reasons
• It is a way to produce fresh food
• Other reasons
• Utopian reasons
• Gives chance to control nature
• Other reasons

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Gardening philosophies

• Approaches range from organic approaches to
  ________________ approaches

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Organic gardening

• The are a variety of ways to define
• The underlying approach
• An approach to gardening that relies on natural
  _______________ and soil process to produce
  vegetables and manage ________________
• Key on
• Natural community processes
• Soil biological activity

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Organic Gardening

• Define by what practices are used
• Crop rotation
• Crop __________________
• Composts
• Animal manures
• Legumes
• ______________ manures
• Mechanical tillage

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Organic Gardening

• Define by what does not use
• Synthetic fertilizers
• Synthetic __________
• Growth regulators

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Synthetic Gardening

• Uses synthetic (man-made) chemicals to supply the
  ________________ requirements of the vegetables
  and uses synthetic ___________________ to control
  pests

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Organic vs. Synthetic Gardening

• Which method is best?
• There is __________ general agreement.