Sprouts

Our seeds are off to a great start!  Well, at least some of them.  Over our spring break a few of our plants perished.  Our kids are still enjoying going outside and weeding the beds during our morning social skills group.  This weekend we will be adding some compost to our current beds to freshen them up from the winter.

We try watering the plants every few days.  The containers we are using allow us to put enough water to last a few days to be sucked up through the egg cartons.A full length view of one of our growing operations.

The plants seem a bit leggy but hopefully they will still be ok!

Spring Cleaning

  Our plants have sprouted and are doing well.  We had spring break last week and a few of our seedlings perished, but most managed to survive the week.  Since we couldn't get in to school, We filled our plastic containers with water and hoped that the egg cartons would allow enough water in to keep our plants hydrated.  I would say it was a success.

The past few weeks have given us a great taste of spring.  Warm temperatures in the day and mild temperatures at night have gotten us into the gardening mood.  As we met with some of our students yesterday, we asked them what they thought would be the next step with our garden.  As expected, several of them said to take the plants outside.  Thankfully, we just had a light frost that morning which made it easier to explain to them that it isn't time to plant outside yet.  Instead, we gathered some tools and began to work and weed the soil to prepare it for planting.

The kids also mentioned that we should expand our garden.  We will be looking into that.  By expanding the garden, we hope to get our school families more involved by adopting a garden plot of two so they can garden as a family.  We will keep you updated on that!