Using Gardening As An Educational Tool (Pun intended)

Its been a loooong winter here. Not so much low temperatures, but damp and windy. Crisp frost enables you to wrap up warm and go see the beautiful outdoors, all sprinkled in a sugar coating, but the wind and rain - not so good.

In anticipation of Spring we are planning our fun veggie patch.

Here's the children's brief for this year -

M & M’s Gardening Project Feb 2015

Find out the last date of frost for our area  -  gardenfocused.co.uk

Work out a planting schedule for the seeds that you have chosen, bearing in mind the last frost date.   Print off a blank calendar to show this. 

Use the on-line tool to make a planner for the raised beds. — gardeners.com

    Find out about organic fertilizers that we can use.  

Make a vocabulary list of new words

    Recycle pots, newspapers (use pot maker) and egg boxes into seedling containers.

    Make a plan of the whole garden on graph paper, with room for all the elements that you want to have. Stride out the garden and make an accurate scale plan.

Plan out your Pizza Patch on  paper, then say how you will mark it out in the garden.

Paint the ‘name stones’ of your plants 

When the time is right, set out a ‘Tee-pea’ of bamboo.

Make notes and keep a weekly growing diary, recording  insects that come into your garden.

HAPPY PLANTING!!!

Books::-

Grow it Eat it

Roots, Shoots, Buckets, and Boots