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Gardening and Horticulture Project
What is it All About?
Is your thumb green? Find out how your garden grows in the 4-H Gardening and Horticulture project. You will learn how to plant a garden, dig it, grow it, show it, and eat it. 4-H Gardening and Horticulture will teach you facts about soils and plants, pest management, and even how you an experiment with plants in a laboratory or field.
Grow in Your Project
Beginner
- Identify different types of gardens
- Grow and maintain a garden
- Plant seeds
- Learn pest management techniques
- Learn how to harvest crops
- Learn to identify and use common garden tools
Intermediate
- Learn about garden fertilizer and nutrients plants need to grow
- Plant bulbs in the fall for spring blooms
- Make a container garden
- Learn about compost and make a simple compost bin
- Discover different ways to prepare and use garden produce
Advanced
- Research types of plants that grow well in your area
- Start an herb garden
- Learn about food preservation methods
- Take a soil sample and have it tested for nutrients
- Experiment with organic production
- Design a gardening experiment
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Project Leader Resources
Take Your Project Further!
- Learn about locally grown foods
- Participate in the a produce judging contest at your County Fair or the State Fair
- Tour a local nursery or farm to explore careers that interest you
- Expand your garden and sell produce at a farmers market or to a local restaurant
- Start a greenhouse or container garden in your home
- Explore the health benefits of different vegetables
Applying Project Skills to Life
Enhance Your Communication Skills
- Make a video on how to properly water your garden
- Teach your club how to identify common weeds
- Give a presentation on common garden tools and how they are used
Get Involved in Citizenship and Service
- Help children plant a garden at a local daycare or school
- Collect seeds and garden supplies and donate them to a local organization
- Plant flowers at local parks, your Extension Office, or your fairgrounds
Learn about Leadership
- Partner with Cen$ible Nutrition to teach a class using garden produce
- Organize and host a community garden tour
- Host a club Produce Judging Contest
Showing What You’ve Learned
- Exhibit vegetables, herbs or flowers
- Make a poster about parts of a plant
- Build a compost bin or rain barrel
- Prepare an exhibit on how to use fresh herbs in cooking
- Create a notebook of common plants for a butterfly garden
- Create design a landscape for home
- Make planters for accessible gardening
- Prepare a poster showing proper harvest times for vegetables
- Display different types of mulch for the garden
- Make a cost comparison of starting your own seeds vs. buying transplants. Show the results on a poster
- Create your own garden calendar
- Start a plant from a cutting
- Create a display on pollination
Adapted with permission from Wyoming State 4-H, Project Information Sheet, Gardening and Horticulture. Retrieved from: https://www.uwyo.edu/4-h/projects/healthy-living/gardening-horticulture.html.
*Resources available at your local Extension office or shop4-H.org.
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