Requirements
1. Do the following:
a. Explain to your counselor the most likely hazards
associated with gardening and what you should do
to anticipate, help prevent, mitigate, and respond
to these hazards.
b. Discuss the prevention of, and treatment for, health
concerns that could occur while gardening, including
cuts, scratches, puncture wounds, insect bites,
anaphylactic shock, heat reactions, and reactions
from exposure to pesticides and fertilizers.
2. Do the following:
a. Grow six vegetables, three from seeds and three from
seedlings, through harvest.
b. Grow six flowers, three from seeds and three from
seedlings, through flowering.
3. Give the nutritional value of the following:
a. Three root or tuber crops
b. Three vegetables that bear above ground
c. Three fruits
4. Test 100 seeds for germination. Determine the percentage
of seeds that germinate. Explain why you think some did
not germinate.
5. Visit your county extension agent’s office, local university
agricultural college, nursery, or a botanical garden or
arboretum. Report on what you learned.
6. Explain to your counselor how and why honey bees are
used in pollinating food crops. Discuss the problems facing
the bee population today, and tell what you think would
be the impact to humanity if there were no pollinators.
7. Identify five garden pests (insects, diseased plants).
Recommend two solutions for each pest. At least
one of the two solutions must be an organic method.
8. Do ONE of the following:
a. Build a compost bin and maintain it for 90 days.
b. Build a vermipost bin (worm compost bin) and
maintain it for 90 days.
c. Build a hydroponic garden containing three vegetables
or herbs, or three ornamental plants. Maintain this
garden through harvest or flowering, or for 90 days.
d. Build one water garden, either in a container (at least
12 by 6 inches and 6 inches deep), or in the ground as
a small, decorative pond no larger than 6 by 3 feet and
24 inches deep. Maintain the water garden for 90 days.
e. Prepare a honey super for use on a hive or colony.
Remove a filled honey super from the hive or colony
and prepare the honey for sale.
Resources:
Scouting.org Merit Badges - Requirements
boyscouttrail.com Merit Badges