Requirement
2. Twelve plants grown to harvest and to flowering
Required Often forgotten
The season. Six vegetables and six flowers, half of each from seed and half from seedlings, and both taken all the way: vegetables through HARVEST, flowers through FLOWERING. Observations discussed with your counselor throughout, not just at the end.
Notes and warnings
Warning. THIS IS A GROWING SEASON PRINTED AS TWO LINES. Twelve plants: six vegetables through HARVEST and six flowers through FLOWERING, half of each from seed. It is requirement 2 of nine and it is the thing that decides when you finish. Start it at the start. A reader who arrives here in September in a cold climate is waiting for spring however much of the rest is done, and the badge gives no hint of that anywhere.
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Where this step comes from
- Gardening Merit Badge Requirements (Merit Badge Hub, last modified 2025-09-19), Requirement 2 · Requires the vegetables to be taken through harvest and the flowers through flowering, with observations discussed with the counselor throughout the process.