Thanks to our Donor's Choose project contributors and Aunt Nancy and her neighbors for collecting lots of salad containers for us! Our seeds have sprung and many are ready to be planted. Last week we transplanted lettuce and eggplants out into our garden where peas and carrots are starting to come up.
Thank you to those individuals who donated to our Seed Starter Kit from Donor' Choose. The Laburnum Garden Club started their own seeds using recycled salad containers that a supporter of our program collected in her neighborhood. Thanks Nancy! The seeds have sprouted and we have started to transplant some outside in our garden beds. So far we have transplanted lettuce, eggplant and squash. We are patiently waiting for the peas we planted to started to grow. I know it is really hard to imagine spring right now... think hard... it is out there, waiting behind this snow and cold. We want to bring Spring a little early into the classroom with an Indoor Seed Starter Station so that Laburnum students can prepare seedlings to plant when this snow disappears. Our garden is expanding more this year with the donation of some more raised beds and we need to fill them up! Donor's Choose is even going to match donations (up to $100) if they are made by February 26, 2015 and if the the promo code SPARK is used during checkout. Thanks everyone! Go here to visiti this project.
Thanks to all our teachers, students, and staff who continue to help our school Recycle, Reduce, and Reuse! And MANY thanks to our 4th grade gentlemen for helping to dump the recycling outside every week.
Can you believe it's almost Fall? Soon we will be planting garlic and greens, but before we start gathering leaves and dressing in layers let's remember SUMMER! The summer garden at Laburnum was full of tomatoes, green beans, and melons. In early summer we even harvested some great carrots! Some of our beans were saved before getting thrown into the compost so that we could dry them and plant them again next year. Thanks to the famies and staff that tended our summer garden we now have the most juiciest grape and cherry tomatoes! Garden club will be starting again this October for 3rd-5th grade students who are interested. Nothing beat our excitement from pullings out the beets! :-) We couldn't wait to see how big they had grown under the ground. They tasted delicious! |
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