Answers to the quiz!
#4 is a weed patch
#1 is a cucumber plant
#3 is a tomato plant
#2 is watermelon
#5 is a pepper plant
(center of the garden)
The strange looking machine (Left) is a roto-tiller. It can loosen soil amd cut weeds much faster than a hoe. It is nice, but It burns gasoline and does polute like a gas powered lawn mower. It can also cut up the wrong plants if you are not careful.
The little plants (right) are actually Maple trees that sprouted from those whirley maple seeds that fall in the spring. Since a Maple tree is a plant that I don't want in my garden, it is a weed! The tiller is about to turn them under the soil.
(Left) The garden has just been tilled with the roto-tiller. Notice the bare soil to the left of the #2 marker. There are seven weeds that I couldn't get with the tiller because they were too close to the watermelons and peppers. See if you can find them.
I use hockey sticks for a lot of things, because they are made of hardwood. The hand shovel (Right)got new life when I added a hardwood handle to it. This shovel is great for getting weeds that the tiller or the hoe can't get.
I promised you a picture of a cucumber flower on page 1, well here it is! (Left) They are a little bigger than the Tomato flower.
(Right) A little mushroom has sprouted in my strawberry patch. Notice the strawberry plant has 3 leaves, just like Poison Ivy.
(Left) The Tomato flowers have developed into little green tomatoes.
This is what the garden looked like in early May. The soil was just turned over by the roto-tiller. Now the seeds that you want to grow can get a jump on the weeds. It is easy to turn weeds when they are small, so don't let them get knee high or you are in for a battle.
Here is what the garden looks like in late June. The Plants are flowering and waiting for pollen.
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