4-H Fruits & Vegetables Project
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What you'll do
Grow your own food! You might choose to grow the very useful potato or your favorite fruit or vegetable.
Explore how to plant, water, fertilize and prune your plant and how to manage weeds, insects and diseases. Learn which species grow in Minnesota's climate and design a plan for growing.
Levels of learning
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Horticulture Hot Sheet from Iowa 4-H (free download)
Learning is more fun together! You could start a Junior Master Gardeners program in your area.
Fairs & exhibits
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Potatoes
- Explain the differences between a Russet, a Carola and a Yukon Gold.
- How are potatoes are best stored and cooked
- Make a report or display about potato varieties, crossbreeding and hybrids, genetics.
- How do various soils affect potato growth?
- What are the common potato pests? How will you deal with them?
- Make a display or report about potatoes in the human diet.
- Potato history: Where did potatoes come from?
Fruit
- Show a basket of fruit you've grown
- Make a poster about parts of a plant and what they do
- Run a taste comparison of different varieties of fruit. Try using the scientific method to come up with a scientific answer
What a judge is looking for (evaluation sheets)
Future study and careers
Master gardeners are volunteers who have become certified through an Extension program.
Reviewed in 2018
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