Gardener Badge

Outcomes

Cubs develop and demonstrate practical gardening knowledge and skills to help beautify their community and/or to grow and produce food.¹

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Requirements

1. Show the proper use of a spade, fork, and rake and how to care for them.
2. Prepare, plant and look after for three months, one of the following:
   • (a) A garden at least 1.5 square meters in size
   • (b) A window box at least 60 cm x 25 cm. in size
   • (c) Two or more perennial
   • (d) A plant terrarium
3. Identify and name from life any three of the following:
   • (a) Six garden flowers
   • (b) Six garden vegetables
   • (c) Four common weeds
   • (d) Three common friends of the garden
   • (e) Three common pests of the garden
4. Choose and do any two of the following:
   • (a) Grow a bulb
   • (b) Grow a tree seed,
   • (c) Start a vegetable from seed on blotter or paper towelling
   • (d) Grow a plant from seedlings
   • (e) Grow a plant from the tops of turnips, carrots, radishes, parsnips or beets

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Cross-badge links:

1. Black Star A9
2. Black Star A3
3. Observer Badge parts 4, 5
4. Black Star A3 and Black Star A5

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Program Suggestions

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Footnotes

1. Taken from MEASURING SUCCESS - THE SCOUTING WAY