First thing this morning, the young gardeners examined their plants and began weeding. Baylee noticed that her squash plant had a bright yellow flower.
Lexie counted 9 flowers on her squash. We also spread new mulch between each garden to provide a dry place to walk. Several of the students commented that the mulch made the gardens look better. Jeff was kind enough to share some organic fertilizer to be used on the tomato and pepper plants.
The topic of today’s lesson was learning about seed germination along with the 5 parts of a seed. We talked about and looked at several different types of seeds including marigold, poppy and bean seeds. After the seed lesson, each student made seed bombs or seed balls. This included seeds, compost, clay and water and can be placed on the ground to grow perennial flowers.
Nate and Sam working on their seed bombs.
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