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Vegetable Garden
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Purpose -
This garden highlights issues of hunger, food, and nutrition. It presents common and easy to grow vegetables. The vegetables in this garden are planted, tended and harvested by 4-H club members. Many of the vegetables are donated to the local food shelf.

Click here for a garden map

Attraction - There are four giant vegetable cutouts to peek through for a great photo opportunity. Become a tomato, carrot, head of broccoli or an ear of corn.


More Info -
Are you getting your five servings of fruits and vegetables each day?
It is easy if they are growing right in your backyard! Start your own garden and enjoy the taste of freshly grown vegetables.


Resources -

Vegetable Gardening Glossary

Mystery Garden Lesson Plan

Vegetable Rock Garden

Rainbow of 5 a Day Fruit and Vegetable Colors

Nutrition Field Day

Plants - (plantings vary from year to year)

Common NameScientific Name
Pepper Capsicum annum
Squash Curcubita maxima
Onion Allium cepa
Cauliflower Brassica oleracea var. botrytis
Carrot Daucus carota
Cabbage Brassica oleracea var. capitata
Broccoli Brassica oleracea botrytis
Bean Phaseolus vulgaris
Broccoli Brassica oleracea botrytis
Radish Raphanus sativus
Sweet Corn Zea mays
Tomato Lycopersicon esculentum
Potato Solanum tuberosum


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