This document outlines a backyard vegetable gardening training program for teenagers in Calamba, Philippines. The program will teach 20-28 participants from 4 barangays about the benefits of vegetable gardening. Over the course of the training, participants will learn about gardening basics like necessary tools and resources, common vegetables to plant, and maintenance techniques. The training methods will include demonstrations, discussions, and games to help impart this knowledge and skills in an engaging way.
This document outlines a backyard vegetable gardening training program for teenagers in Calamba, Philippines. The program will teach 20-28 participants from 4 barangays about the benefits of vegetable gardening. Over the course of the training, participants will learn about gardening basics like necessary tools and resources, common vegetables to plant, and maintenance techniques. The training methods will include demonstrations, discussions, and games to help impart this knowledge and skills in an engaging way.
This document outlines a backyard vegetable gardening training program for teenagers in Calamba, Philippines. The program will teach 20-28 participants from 4 barangays about the benefits of vegetable gardening. Over the course of the training, participants will learn about gardening basics like necessary tools and resources, common vegetables to plant, and maintenance techniques. The training methods will include demonstrations, discussions, and games to help impart this knowledge and skills in an engaging way.
This document outlines a backyard vegetable gardening training program for teenagers in Calamba, Philippines. The program will teach 20-28 participants from 4 barangays about the benefits of vegetable gardening. Over the course of the training, participants will learn about gardening basics like necessary tools and resources, common vegetables to plant, and maintenance techniques. The training methods will include demonstrations, discussions, and games to help impart this knowledge and skills in an engaging way.
OBJECTIVES • To input the beneficiaries with skills and knowledge of backyard gardening
• To teach the participants the benefits derived from backyard gardening
• To demonstrate an ideal backyard garden to serve as model to the community
LEARNING POINTS Topics:
1. What is vegetable gardening?
2. What are benefits of vegetable garden in the backyard?
3. What are the resources needed in vegetable garden?
4. What are the commonly used tools in making vegetable garden?
5. What are the steps and procedures in making vegetable garden?
6. How can we care and maintain our vegetable garden?
TRAINING METHODS Discussion of tools and resources before starting a vegetable garden Demonstration (steps and procedures) of Backyard Vegetable Gardening
RESOURCES Garden tools visual aids vegetable seed
ATMOSPHERE Appropriate to teenagers and adults but the main focus is training of teenagers. The demonstration and lecture place must be connected to the topic.
(KSA) NEEDS OF THE PARTICIPANTS
Knowledge
• Vegetable Gardening
• Gardening Tools • Protection & Maintenance
• Type of Seeds
• Planting
Skills
• Familiarity with the technology
• How to make a Seedbed Plot
• Proper Spacing of Plant
• How to make Compost
Attitudes
• Interest
• Comprehensive
• Cooperative
• Responsible
• Patienc
ACTIVITY
BAHAY KUBO In this activity, the participants will be asked to sing the ‘Bahay Kubo’. Then after that, the facilitators will choose one representative each group and the representatives will be asked to write all the vegetables mentioned in the song. They will be given a minute to write all the vegetables as they can, the representative with the most number of vegetables listed will be the winner.
DISCUSSION What did you feel in this activity?
What strategy did you use?
What did you observe in this activity?
INPUTS What is Vegetable Garden?
A vegetable garden (also known as a vegetable patch or vegetable plot) is a garden that exists to grow vegetables and other plants useful for human consumption. It is a small-scale form of vegetable growing. It is usually located to the rear of a property in the back garden or back yard.
“Jumbled Letters”: Participants will be presented with jumbled words in relation with the benefits of vegetable gardening. What are the benefits of Vegetable Garden in the Backyard?
Gardening can be a fun and rewarding experience that allows you to enjoy fresh air, exercise and a healthier diet. It's an activity that rewards you with delicious, healthy, and cheap food to eat. It can also be a source of livelihood or additional income to your family.
“What is the Tagalog Term”: Participants will guess the Tagalog terms of tools used in gardening.
What are the tools commonly used in making Vegetable Garden?
1. Rake. A garden rake is a useful tool for levelling soil in preparation for sowing vegetable seeds into the bed.
2. Sprinkler. Allow the water to come out at a very gentle flow rate and are useful for reaching across long distances and perfect for watering young seedlings.
3. Spade.This tool can be used to dig up weeds, divide perennial plants, turn over soil, and work compost into the soil.
4. Stakes. Assorted bamboo stakes, posts and old broom handles make excellent supports for tall plants that need vertical support.
5. Wheelbarrow. A wheelbarrow is also a helpful tool for moving large plants to a new location, collecting harvested vegetables and carting other materials around the yard.
6. Shears. Sometimes called clippers, are used for pruning, shaping and removing foliage or branches.
“Guess What?” .There will be 5 participants in each group. Each one of them will be blindfolded and they will be given things related to vegetable gardening for them to identify with a given time frame. After that, the participants will list on the blackboard on what they think is that thing they were asked to guess.
What are the Proper Plants to be Planted in the Vegetable Garden?
1. Bittermelon (Ampalaya)
- Also called Bittergourd, has an acquired taste. The plant produces cucumber – like fruits that are pale white with pronounced bumps. The flavour is slightly bitter an makes an interesting addition to soups and stir – fires. Unique and easy to grow.
2. Cucumber (Pepino)
- It has a mild, lightly sweet taste and is becoming popular as the vegetable in salads or cooked in stews. The pepino melon plant or bush is about 1 meter high and looks a lot like a potato plant. The flowers are small, blue, violet – purple or white marked with purple and they are similar to unopened potato flowers.
3. Tomato (Kamatis)
- Is one of the best of the heirloom vegetable now available. Produces really tasty large pink tomatoes truly worthy of growing. Fruits can weigh up to a pound. Indeterminate. This packet will produce approximately 25 plants. Packet contains 160 mg of seeds.
4. Swamp Cabbage (KangKong)
- Usually used as an ingredient in sinigang (sour stew), it can stand on its own superb dishes like adobong kangkong.
5. White Radish (Labanos)
- Very pungent. On its own, it is wonderful as a salads (slice thinly, rubbed in salt t remove the pungent taste, add a few slices of tomatoes, sugar and vinegar) It is also an ingredient in singang.
What are the Steps and Procedures in making Vegetable Garden?
SITE LOCATION
• Your garden site should offer at least 6-8 hours of direct sunlight. • Avoid placing your garden in a low spot in your landscape. • Locate your garden away from buildings and trees.
SOIL PREPARATION
• Your garden soil should have lots of organic matter content.
• Avoid areas of heavy clay content if possible. • Amend your garden soil with organic matter each year.
SEEDING AND TRANSPLANTS
• You can grow quality transplants indoors with proper temperature and light. • Keep the temperature 70-75 degrees • Soil should be moist but not wet at seeding time. • Create a furrow or hole to drop seed in. • Cover seed and firm the soil.
WATERING
• Vegetable gardens should receive at least 1 inch of water per week.
• Don't water over top of the plants. • Avoid watering in the evening. • Use of soaker hoses or trickle irrigation is highly recommended.
HARVESTING
• Harvest when fruits and vegetables are ripe.
• Avoid over ripe fruits and vegetables like beans, corn, cauliflower, cucumbers and squash. •
“Paramihan”: Participants will be given a time frame to list as many as they can the ways to maintain and care for vegetable garden.
How can we care and maintain our vegetable garden?
1. Moderately sprinkle the seedbed every morning and in the afternoon.
2. Dig and pulverize the soil every 2-3 times once a week for proper soil aeration. 3. Pull the weeds so that it will not compete with plant growth. 4. Use organic compost for vigorous growth of the vegetables. 5. Build fences around the seedbed to prevent from other animals such as goat, chicken, dog etc.
Source: - www.hoptechno.com/book26.htm - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable garden - vegetablegardens.suite101.com/article.cfm/ten_tools_for_vegetable_gardeners#ixzz0RKe6OyK3 - www.ehow.com/how_13279_select-basic-garden.html DEEPENING Ask the students share their own experience in gardening. Let them share information on what they know about plants appropriate in gardening and its importance.
SYNTHESIS Each group will make a rough draft of a vegetable garden. They will think of an appropriate place in their baranggay on where they will start their vegetable garden, appropriate plants to be planted and other resources. They must label each part. (Resources: manila paper and pentelpen)
TIME TABLE Venue: UPLB Holticulture Farm and Training Center
TIME ACTIVITY TOPIC OBJECTIVE
8:00-8:30 Registration
8:30-8:35 Invocation
8:35-8:50 Introduction of the Guests • To introduce the
and Participants participants, guests and facilitator to each other
8:50-10:45 “What's Your Song?” “Intro on Backyard • To input the beneficiaries
Vegetable Garden” with skills and knowledge of “Jumbled Letters” backyard vegetable I. Benefits of Vegetable “What’s the Tagalog Term” gardening Garden “Guess What” II. Resources/Tools • For the participants to needed in Backyard participate and get to know Vegetable Gardening each other
III. Proper plants that can • To introduce and familiarize
be planted students to procedures tools, and principles used in planning gardens • To discuss the benefits derived from backyard gardening 10:45-11:00 BREAK
11:00-12:00 “Paramihan” III.Steps and Procedures • To demonstrate to students in Planting the procedures for selecting (Demonstration) and planting garden sites
IV. Care and Maintenance • To provide students with
• instruction in the various management practices used to maintain and care for gardens
CWTS Group 2: Ahmm… eto po yung edited na Training Design… yan po ang susundin…
Pero sa DEMO natin sa Monday, kailangan natin pagkasyahin lahat yan sa loob lang ng 30 minutes…
So eto po yung mga distribution ng tasks, pati na rin yung time allotment…
Facilitator: Time Allotment Tasks Topic
Jamii – (emcee) 2 minutes Invocation, Intro of guests and participants James 3minutes ‘Bahay Kubo’ Aila 2 minutes discussion What is Backyard Vegetable Garden? Mabel 3 minutes ‘Jumbled Letters’; Benefits of V. discussion Garden Genelie 3 minutes ‘What’s the Tagalog Resources/Tools term’; discussion Deemple 3 minutes ‘Guess What’, Proper plants… discussion Dan 4 minutes Making a seedbed, Steps & procedures Compost pit; Arbine 3 minutes Discussion Kathy 3 minutes ‘Paramihan’; Care & discussion Maintenance Jamii 2 minutes Deepening James 2 minutes Synthesis
Aean, goodluck na lang kung magawa nga natin yan, basta dapat mabilis lang talaga yung phasing… Kaya natin ‘to!!!
Kaya naman, paki-master na po yung mga ididiscuss niyo?!
Genelie- yung pictures ng tools… si Arbine na raw bahala magprint…
Pati guys, yung mga gagamitin para sa games, si Kathy na raw bahala so, tas sa visual aids naman, ako na lang… ^^,
Pati eto pa pala yung mag kailangan : garden soil, tomato seeds, spade (dulos daw? Basta pangbungkal ng lupa??) sprinkler… ayun..
Yung lupa eh, siguro mga 2 medium sized na plastic na puno ang dami… ^^, may tray na pala dito…
Haha, pirma ko ean!!! Napagtripan ko lang ilagay
