THIS WEEK: WE ARE SENDING HOME CUPS OF SOIL WITH SEEDS YOUR KIDS PLANTED!
In Garden Club, we focus on growing our own food, and part of our mission is to help our families grow at home! So, we send home starter plants and are here to support our families to grow! We have put together a PDF with steps to help grow most plants from seed.
IN OR OUTDOORS?
- LONG-STORY SHORT, we chose plants that can go outside now and are frost-tolerant.
- Cool-weather plants, can grow right outside in a pot or the ground (these are root vegetables, leafy greens, snowpeas and the wild pollinator flowers we chose). When temperatures in the summer sore, these plants will start to bolt and seed>>time to make room for the summer crops!
- See the PDF for transplanting instructions.
- Or choose to keep your plants indoors — just be sure to put a plate under the pot we gave you, so it doesn’t leak.
CLICK to Download Printable Color Page and How to Grow Steps!
Thanks to friends at the http://www.CamdenChildrensGarden.org for letting us recycle the HOW TO GROW YOUR OWN page, which Tracy Nyszczot created for one of Philadelphia Flower Show Exhibits: “Soup and Salad” by the Camden Children’s Garden with the Campbell Soup Foundation.
For Specific Plants:
Here is some information regarding the care of those specific plants:
For Peas or Climbing Plants
They will require a trellis, like bamboo sticks, to act like a ladder for the climbing vine plants.
For Leafy Greens
Kale, spinach and lettuces are the gift that keeps on giving…if you harvest correctly. For harvesting “Cut-and-come again” plants, be sure to cut leaves from the outside and always leave at least 3 leaves in the middle—the plant will continue to grow and produce salad after salad!
For Carrots
Wait until the visible leaves are about 7-10inches. If you pull out and it’s not ready, replant and keep growing. And yes carrot greens are edible, but be sure to leave some so that the plant can continue to grow.
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