Camp Garden

The Fourth-Level Young Women can meet these requirements in the Hulaco garden:    As crops grow they deplete vital nutrients from the soil.  We preserve the garden by adding these nutrients back to the soil.  The fourth year Young Women get to fertilize the garden.   This is also a skill the Young Women can teach to someone else.  Just as we need a balanced diet to be healthy, so do vegetable plants.  We know that vegetables need 16 nutrients to grow healthy.   Three come from the air: Carbon, Oxygen, Hydrogen.  Three are Primary nutrients: Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Potassium.  Three are Secondary Nutrients: Calcium, Magnesium, Sulfur.  The last seven are Trace Elements: Boron, Copper, Iron, Manganese, Zinc, Molybdenum, and Chlorine .   Just like people can become malnourished when their bodies don't get all the nutrients they need.   Plants also get malnourished.  This plant didn't...

Have you noticed how easy it is to feel Heavenly Father's love when you're in nature?  We've made this garden at Hulaco to help us draw closer to Heavenly Father.  With the wind on our face and warm sun on our backs, we feel His presence when we are in the garden.   There is a wonderful science involved in growing vegetables.  Vegetables need fertile soil, water and plenty of sun light to grow. When we understand the science of growing vegetables, we can easily understand the principles behind faith.  In fact, the two go hand in hand.  It takes faith to plant a garden.  Think about it...we take a little seed, maybe the seed will grow,  maybe it won't. The only way to know is to plant it and wait.  We nourish it. We watch and wait and hope it will grow.  We keep ourselves motivated by the vision that someday it will bear fruit.  The same is true of faith.  We need to plant our faith so it will grow. ...

CERTIFICATION LEADERS: At the end of this lesson,  encourage the Young Women to each pull  10 weeds, put them in the trash bags provided in the garden box, and take the weeds to the dumpster.     The first plant to identify is the tomato plant?   Tomato will grow everywhere there is a flower. Notice the tiny little green tomatoes.  They will get bigger and turn red. 2.  The cucumber plant.  Can you find a cucumber plant?  The blooms (flowers) are where the cucumbers will grow? Touch a cucumber leaf.  What do you notice about the leaves?  Cucumbers are climbing plants.  Can you find the little curly vine the cucumber holds onto the string with?  These are called tendrils. 3.  Basil.  Basil is a herb often used in Italian dishes.  All of the basil plants in the garden grew from the seeds from the plants we grew last yea...