BYU Gardening Final UPDATED
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
What is the Extension Service? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔For list of fruits, nuts and veggie
that grow well in your your area. ( funded by citizens taxes all of topics)
Rule of thumb #1 - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔One 4x4 plot will grow enough for one person
for a season. one more 4x4 plot allow you store for the winter
Rule of thumb #2 - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Do not let your land bare, causes weeds to
grow. +wast of land
Rule of thumb #3 - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔-Cool crops- if you eat the veggie part.
growing in the spring maturing by mid-summer
-Warm crops- If you eat the flowering or fruit part. planted in late spring and maturing in
early spring.
Cool crops - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔f you eat the veggie part. growing in the spring
maturing by mid-summer (stem, root, leaves)
Warm crops - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔If you eat the flowering or fruit part. planted in late
spring and maturing in early spring. (expect sweet potatoes, need pollinated, by wind, water,
insects)
Succession Cropping - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Growing an early crop followed by a later
crop in the same area, used to maximize food growth (cool crops first than warm)
Intercropping - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Having two or more different veggies growing in
the same piece of ground, shoulder to shoulder (herbs) at the same time.
Companion Planting - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔two plants next to each other that
beneficial each other.
,Double cropping - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Two crops planting in the same row one with a
high- germinating seed and one slow-germinting seed.
Quick-germinating seeds - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Lettuce, mustard, radish, spinach,
turnip, and onion sets
Slower-germinating seeds - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔asparagus, beet, chard, carrots, leeks,
parley, parsnip, and onion seeds.
Early-maturing seeds - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔beans(bush) beet, lettuce, mustard, onion
sets, peas, radish and spinach
later-maturing seeds - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔broccoli, brussels sprouts, corn cucumber,
melons, cabbages, pumpkin, zucchini, tomatoes, and winter squash.
Vertical Planting - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔along fence or strung between stakes of trellis
(works with tomatoes, squash, melon, cucumbers and pole beans)
Pros: less damage by rotting, less insects and slugs, less space used, more sunlight.
Cons: use more water, small yield, get sun scab cracking or blossom rot.
Crop Rotation - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔to change out what plants grow in that field each
season restore soil and less chance on parasites and disease.
5 factors for growing - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔soil, water, light, spaces, time
Raising-Bed - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Dried out fast in soil, soaker hoes, path ways get
weedy. patio and rooftop Garden (small areas) grow in containers must drain.
All veggies love sunlight except? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Lettuce, cabbage, spinach,
and chives need some shade.
, most veggies love a PH 6.0-7.0 except? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Potatoes
Soaker hose - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔conserves water. hoes with holes in the sides of
them.
What plants well in shallow containers? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔lettuce, radish, chives,
parsley, and herbs
5 Gallon Containors - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔cucumber, tomatoes, pepper and eggplant
Vertical gardens - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Tomatoes, cucumbers, pole beans, and squash (
uses vertical frames, less rot, insects, and slugs. pumpkins on the teepees)
Potatoes: - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Will scab with a PH of 7.5
Hydrangeas - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Acidic- blue
Alkaline- Pink
Soil might not allow water penetration because? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔1. soil texture:
multiple layers of soils have different textural and water dose not move down through the
layers
2. Soil depth: to minimize soil breakdown you can
A) cultivate soil: not too wet not dry
B) set a side walking ways.
1-7PH - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔acidic
7-14PH - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔alkaline
composting - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔carbon to nitrogen ratio of 23:1. adding material
such as chopped leaves, peat moss, and so forth loosen soil for drainage. ( composting lowers
PH)
