Thinking outside the garden!
No reason for our vegetables to stay inside the vegetable plot: There is a whole world of space out there..... Lets take our vegetables into the playground. Be prepared for our Spring Family Workday!
Let's decorate our fence
Birdboxes! - brightly colored and set on the fence. Get the bird box kits from here: Oriental Trading company
or Michaels |
101 Uses for Plastic Bottles
Put new life into those old sweaters.
Save those moth eaten, shrunken and pulled sweaters and create a simple hanging plant pot to decorate your fence or our trellis.
see this link for instructions:
http://www.larkcrafts.com/needlearts/free-project-felt-plant-pouches/
see this link for instructions:
http://www.larkcrafts.com/needlearts/free-project-felt-plant-pouches/
Grow Mushrooms
Make a cold frame
Hoop houses are a way of winterizing your garden. They create a nice little microclimate, that is warm and bug free to extend your growing season. The hoops are covered with a 'frost blanket' a fleecy material that holds off snow and lets light and water in. Hoop houses are easily purchased and just as easily made with a little ingenuity.
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Don't forget to plant your beds!
Get clever and use what you can recycle. Ms. Martin is going to use broken hola hoops! frost blankets |
Make a Bird's Nest Gourd into a bird's nest.
Name those greens!
How to make a grow light.
This article shows a simple way to build a grow light. It looks easy, but please beware! PVC is an accepted environmentally hazardous material, both in it's production and usage. We have included this article so maybe you can apply the construction methods to another material such as copper piping or wood. NOTE: google the dangers of PVC:
http://www.acereport.org/pvc2.
htmlhttp://blog.greendepot.com/environment/danger-its-pvc-plastic-number-3/
http://www.acereport.org/pvc2.
htmlhttp://blog.greendepot.com/environment/danger-its-pvc-plastic-number-3/
Silver Bells and Cockle Shells.
We need to decorate our gardens. The final plant bed needs painting and the beds need to be named! Naming the beds helps us in the crop rotation (see schedules). make wooden signs with the bed names on them, or paint the names on the beds.
Anyone want to paint a mural on the rain barrel?
Anyone want to paint a mural on the rain barrel?