Fruits Vegetables and Nuts
By: Richie Knight
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Description:
The objectives of the 4-H Fruits, Vegetables and Nuts Project is to encourage
4-H members to :
* learn about the fruits, vegetables and nuts commonly grown
in
* learn about the economic importance of fruits, vegetables
and nuts in
the nation.
* learn about varieties and production systems for specific
fruits, vegetables and nuts.
A 4-H project in Fruits, Vegetables and Nuts can address any issue related to a
specific fruit or
vegetable or nut, or, combinations such as vegetable gardening or fruit
gardening. The scope of the
project is limited only by your imagination. Hopefully, the following
list of possible demonstration topics
and portfolio building activities will help you develop ideas that will be of
great interest to you!
List of Possible Demonstration Topics:
Discuss the variety requirements and production practices necessary to be
successful in growing a
specific fruit. Fruits adapted to
blueberries, strawberries, muscadine grapes, bunch
grapes, raspberries, blackberries, figs, persim-
mons and other minor fruits.
Discuss propagation methods used to asexually propagate the various fruit
plants.
Vegetables
* Discuss the use of pesticides on horticulture crops in the
garden. What are biological controls?
What is a cut-off date for harvesting?
* Discuss square-foot, intensive gardening.
* How can compost be used in the garden?
* Discuss the harvesting, storage, and wholesale marketing of
a single vegetable crop.
* Discuss ethnic vegetables, eg. Chinese "stir fry" vegetables newly introduced
to American
gardeners.
* Discuss heirloom fruits and vegetables.
* Discuss the different parts of vegetables used for food (tubers, leaves, berries, roots, stems, etc.).
What cultivation practices are used to make these parts more appealing to
customers?
* Culinary
* Research and discuss herbs used for medicine (now or
historically).
* Discuss basic nutrient requirement of one family of
vegetables.
* Discuss organically raised fruits and vegetables.
* Demonstrate and discuss the growing of vegetable
transplants.
* Demonstrate the use of a cold frame.
* Discuss planting dates and how they can vary in
* Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of
mulching in the garden.
Tree Nuts
* Pecan Cultivars -- Discuss the cultivars recommended for
commercial and home garden use.
* Pecan Propagation
* Discuss and demonstrate the various methods used to
asexually propagate pecan cultivars.
Topworking
of older can also be discussed and demonstrated.
*
Pecan Renovation -- Discuss how to evaluate an overcrowded grove and the basis
used to
decide which trees to remove.
* Pecan Integrated Crop Management
* There are many additional topic opportunities including
nutrition, pest management irrigation,
harvesting and handling, grove
establishment, etc.
Prepared by :
Maurice E. Ferree,
Extension Horticulturist--Fruit Crops
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