Add this sheet to your regular 4-H Record Book. Keep all your records in one book C0833

VEGETABLE

4-H CONTAINER GARDEN PLAN FOR

FLOWER NAME

Project Enrollment Number

Total Square Feet In Garden

Garden Design: Draw a map of your garden plot indicating shape, size, and general arrangement of crops.

C0833 – Page 2

PLANTING PLAN AND RECORD

Plant / Variety / Planned
Planting
Date / Actual
Planting
Date / Method*
Of
Propagation / Quantity planted
(number of feet of row,
number of plants)

* How plants were started in the garden; i.e. seed, transplants, cuttings, bulbs, etc.

C0833 – Page 3

INVENTORY

Tools, equipment, fertilizers, pesticides, etc. carried over year to year.

Beginning of Year / End of Year
Date / Item / Number or Quantity / Value / Date / Item / Number or Quantity / Value
Total / Total

4-H GARDEN INCOME & EXPENSES RECORD

Expenses:

Date / Item / Number or Quantity / Unit Cost / Total Cost
Tool Rental
Tilling (if done by others)
Seed
Plants
Fertilizer
Pesticides
Tools purchased

C0833 – Page 4

Income:

Date / Item / Amount Harvested / Amount on Hand / Price or Value / Total Crop Value
Total value of all crops

PROFIT & LOSS STATEMENT

  1. End of year inventory value (from Page 3)
  2. Total value of crops grown (from above)
  3. Value of products grown Total (add 1 & 2 above)
  4. Beginning of year inventory value (Page 3)
  5. Expenses (Page 3)
  6. Cost of production Total (add 4 & 5 above)

Profit or loss from project (line 3 minus line 6)

VEGETABLE

4-H EXPERIMENTAL ORNAMENTAL GARDEN RECORD (To be completed only by members enrolled in experimental projects)

Container

Experiment
No. / Plant Establishment / Experimental Treatment / Data Collection -- Outcomes / C0833 – Page 5
Plant Species / Date Planted / Description of
what you did / Date / Observation or measured differences in
Size, color, growth rate, number of
Blooms, yields, etc. / Date*

* The date you made the observations recorded

VEGETABLE

4-H EXPERIMENTAL ORNAMENTAL GARDEN RECORD (To be completed only by members enrolled in experimental projects)

Container

Exp.
No. / Purpose of Experiment / Results of experiment – Summary of what
Happened / Conclusions – what you learned from the
experiment / C0833 – Page 6
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College of Agriculture and Home Economics, Pullman, Washington. Issued by Washington State University Cooperative Extension, Michael J. Tate, Director, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture in furtherance of the Acts of May 8 and June 30, 1914. Cooperative Extension programs and policies are consistent with federal and state laws and regulations on nondiscrimination regarding race, color, national origin, religion, gender, age, disability and gender preference. Trade names have been used to simplify information; no endorsement is intended. Reprinted August 2000.