Name: Brian Hoang
ABS 360 Southwest Home Gardening
Creative Assignment –Vegetable Garden Design
Objective: The purpose of this creative assignment is for you to have some additional
experience in developing a plan for either a warm-season or cool-season vegetable garden.
This creative assignment is worth 25 points.
There are two distinct gardening seasons in Phoenix. Begin this assignment by first deciding
whether you will focus on developing a plan for a warm-season or cool-season vegetable
garden. Next, select three vegetable plants that you would like to plant and eat (for example,
corn, squash and peppers). All three vegetables plants that you select MUST be either a cool-
season or warm-season vegetable. Your textbook, the three videos and web resources in the
external link section on vegetable gardening will be helpful sources of information.
First answer these two questions:
1. Is your garden a warm-season or cool-seasongarden?Cool-season
2. What three garden vegetable plants did you select?
1. Carrots
2. Lettuce
3. Peas
Now, accomplish the following four tasks.
Task 1. Select two varieties of each vegetable plant (sometimes called cultivars) that you have
selected to be a part of your garden plan. You will have a total of 6 types of plants.In the boxes
provided below, write what each of these two varieties are and what unique feature(s)led you
to choose them and the citation (Website URL, catalogs, bulletins etc.) from which you got your
information.
For example, ‘Abraham Lincoln’ is a heirloom variety of tomato that is resistant to forming
cracks on the skin of the fruit, and ‘Ancho’ is a delicious mildly hot variety of pepper that is
heart-shaped with a thick skin making it a great pepper for stuffing when cooked. Note that
generic terms such as cherry tomato, bell pepper, and hot pepper are not correct answers for
this task.
Task 1 Answer….
Vegetable plant 1 Carrot
Cultivar 1
Name Asubeni
Description About 8-8.5 inches and is very sweet and a deep orange color.
Citation http://cuke.hort.ncsu.edu/cucurbit/wehner/vegcult/carrot.html
Cultivar 2
Name Bunny Bite
Description Known as the baby carrot and great for home garden use with great early
developing color and great quality.
Citation http://cuke.hort.ncsu.edu/cucurbit/wehner/vegcult/carrot.html
Vegetable plant 2 Lettuce
Cultivar 1
Name Ithaca
Description The Ithaca is a type of iceberg lettuce; one of the most comprehensive type of
lettuce to grow because of its inability to handle hot summer temps and water
stress.
Citation Grant, A. (2016, March 26). Lettuce Varieties – Learn About The Different
Types Of Lettuce. Retrieved November 29, 2017, from
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/vegetables/lettuce/different-lettuce-
types.htm
Cultivar 2
Name Little Leprechaun
Description A type of Romaine lettuce that has leaves growing upright and spoon shaped.
Color is greener towards the exterior and more greenish white interiorly.
Citation Grant, A. (2016, March 26). Lettuce Varieties – Learn About The Different
Types Of Lettuce. Retrieved November 29, 2017, from
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/vegetables/lettuce/different-lettuce-
types.htm
Vegetable plant 3 Peas
Cultivar 1
Name Sugar Snap
Description Tall vine, medium sized pod. Excellent flavor and stringy.
Citation http://cuke.hort.ncsu.edu/cucurbit/wehner/vegcult/peagreenmz.html
Cultivar 2
Name Sweet Snap
Description Medium tall vine, small sized pod. Round yellow seeds and stringy.
Citation http://cuke.hort.ncsu.edu/cucurbit/wehner/vegcult/peagreenmz.html
Task 2. Develop a garden plan. To do this, assume that your garden space is 15 feet
wide and 10 long. Use the box below to develop your plan noting the north-facing arrow
to help you visualize your garden space’s orientation. The box space provided below is
partitioned into three smaller areas to help you visualize your space – this is your
garden space! Within the boxes provided, creatively locate where in your garden space
you will grow your three vegetable plant types. Do this by placing small symbols
North ↑
representing the approximate placement of individual plants in your garden space. You
must use three separate and unique symbols, one for each plant type, to receive
full credit.
Remember to place plants based on shading patterns (for example large plants planted
in the west block would provide shade for small plants in the east block in the
afternoon). Some vegetables might benefit from afternoon shade in the summer and
others might need full sun. In the winter, maximum amounts of sun are most desirable.
One vegetable should be in each planting block. Be creative, you may want to grow
some of your vegetables on a trellis or using staking.
Task 2 Answer…..
Peas Lettuce Carrots
Peas would be planted on the west side of the garden because peas do well in almost any
condition. Lettuce will be planted in the middle because it requires at about 6 hours of sunlight
throughout the day. I put carrots on the east side because they only require about four to five
hours of sunlight per day and they will be shaded most the day by the peas and lettuce until the
late afternoon where they will receive their necessary amount of sunlight.
Task 3. In Phoenix, warm-season gardens are generally planted when one is confident
that winter cold is over and there will be no more frost events at night. Cool-season
gardens are generally planted when one is confident that the persistent 100oF days of
summer are ending. For this task develop a ‘gardening timeline’ for each of your three
garden plants consisting of three calendar dates for each plant type.
Those dates are: 1) date of planting your garden, 2) date when you anticipate harvesting
your first vegetables based on the ‘number of days to harvest’, and finally 3) the date you
expect to finish harvesting your vegetables from this garden. Note: It is most likely that you
will plant all your plants in your garden space on the same day, but the days to first harvest
and the duration of harvest for each vegetable plant will most likely be different.
Task 3 Answer….
Gardening Timeline
Activity Plant 1- Carrots Plant 2- Lettuce Plant 3-Peas
Planting date October 25 October 25 October 25
First harvest date December 14 February 2 December 19
Last harvest date May 11 May 12 May 31
Task 4. Decide if you will grow your vegetable plants from seeds, bulbs, tubers or
transplants in the Phoenix area. Tell us why.
Carrots will be planted by seeds because it’s a root plant and require being deep into rich soil.
Lettuce would be transplanted because they will be more mature and more tolerant to climate
changes. Peas are planted as seeds in soil but not too deep so they have plenty of room to
sprout.
Vegetable Garden Creative assignment grading rubric
Pts Item
5 - Answering the first two questions
20
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Each of the four tasks is worth 5 points
Possible point deductions:
-25 Assignment e-mailed and not properly uploaded to Blackboard as an
assignment
-10 Lack of attribution, no URL address for vegetable selection sources
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