3. Pretest
1. Vegetable home gardens help the families in many ways.
Which of the following is not true about vegetable home
gardens? Vegetable home gardens …
a. Provide additional income for the family.
b. Are a source of a variety of vegetables throughout the year.
c. Prevent bonding with family members through gardening.
d. Develop the value of manual labor, industry, and
cooperation.
4. 2. Market gardening is located near centers of
population to have a ready market of vegetable
produce. In order to meet the consumers demand,
some requirements are needed except the . . .
a. Frequent use of toxic pesticides.
b. Intensive and continuous cropping.
c. Wise use of fertilizer and irrigation.
d. Efficient protection against crop pest.
5. 3. This type of vegetable growing is practiced in
wide tracts of land with the purpose of producing
vegetables for distant markets.
a. Home gardening
b. Market gardening
c. Truck gardening
d. Vegetable forcing
6. 4. Vegetables grown out from their normal or regular growing
seasons are called off-season vegetables. Which of the
following statements is not true about vegetable forcing?
a. Off-season vegetables are best grown in greenhouses.
b. Off-season vegetables need intensive and expensive care.
c. Off-season vegetables are marketed at a lower price than
vegetables grown during the regular growing period.
d. Off-season vegetables require scientific procedures and
the use of special environmental facilities.
7. 5. Which of the following hinders a farmer from engaging in
vegetable production?
a. Negative attitude of the farmer and lack of technical
knowhow
b. Erratic supply and low quality produce
c. Poor farm-to-market roads and inadequate storage
facilities
d. Limited entrepreneurial skills and reliable market
information
8. Activity 1
Group 1 - Why are there less farmers engaged in
vegetable production as compared to the production of
other crops?
Group 2 – What are the types of vegetable gardening?
Group 3- Government intervention /support that you
know that boost agricultural activity.
Group 4- Branches government that engaged primarily
in agricultural development.
10. Three kinds of
home gardening
Market Gardening-
Is a type of gardening
located near centers of
population which are
ready market of their
produce.
11.
12. Truck Gardening
-is the opposite of market
gardening since a large
tract of land is used to
produce vegetables for
distant markets.
13.
14. Vegetable Growing for Processing
Growing vegetables for processing is a type
of vegetable production wherein vegetables
produced are canned, pickled, frozen, or
dehydrated. The advantage of processed
vegetables is that the vegetable produce
may be held in storage until needed by the
consumer
15. Vegetable Forcing
Is the growing of vegetables out of season
which means the vegetables are planted at
any time other than their normal period of
growing. This type of vegetable production
requires scientific procedures and the use of
special environmental facilities.
16. Vegetable Seed Production
Vegetable seed production is the growing of
vegetable to produce seeds for planting.
This is the most specialized type of
vegetable growing because it requires
knowledgeable and skilled workers with a
good background of plant breeding to
ensure genetic purity and good quality of
the seed crop.
17. Activity 3
make a poster of an ideal vegetable
garden. The poster should be done on
one whole white cartolina. Use a
maximum of five colors to shade your
poster. Imaginative posters will be given
additional points.
