KidsGardening.org – Grant Program Notification 4/30/12 5:46 PM
April 23rd, 2012 Dear Gardening Friend & Educator,
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I found this Woolly Pocket planter at ModulaR on Atlantic (super cool new design store–spent way too much) and I’m thinking they might be a “tasteful” option to hang on the fence for communal herb gardens. Also like that they are self-watering, can be used indoor or out, and may last for next year…The mini ones I got cost about 19. but if we liked them I’d reach out to the manufacturers and try to get a discount (they have a school garden plan but I’m not sure we’d qualify)
Also picked up some adhesive chalkboard— thinking we might try it for plant markers (mounted on rocks or other small items)or temporary signs…Not sure exactly what we’d do with it–but I see potential!
How’s this for a reproduction of Shari’s map? Pretty amazing, right? I need to go through the lists of seedlings everyone sent and make sure we have places for everything, but it should all work out . . .
This doesn’t do justice to the graphics on the word document that Shari created and shared (check the original), but I wanted to try to get it up on our blog, for the visual record/archives. The communal bed is missing (should be next to root veggies) but otherwise the bare bones kinda translate…
GARDEN BED LAYOUT
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Just had to post Dennis’ photo of the tulips in the play area’s shade garden (thanks to Francesca and the kids that planted them last November!).
Aren’t they amazing?
Dennis bought some hardware cloth to make some kind of protection for seedlings when we move them outside (both when we “harden off” the seedlings before transplanting, and after transplanting; could also protect seeds we plant directly in the ground), but we ran out of time to build before we left town. Anyone interested in taking up the challenge? The hardware cloth is in the garden and awaits a creative mind!
I’m not sure what we might want . . . some possible ideas are in the pics below, my thinking wasn’t that we’d make something that we’d keep on the whole season, just long enough to protect the season, maybe also until the seedlings are big enough to keep the cats from thinking these are litter boxes. We could, of course, make something more durable and attractive . . .
While I was noodling around on the web looking for ideas, I ran into a lot of talk of cold frames for extending the outdoor season . . . I think the pics below are from e-how, and I thought they looked pretty cool:
Just thinking for the future . . .
UPDATE: As noted in the comments below, there should be exactly 3′ by 6′ of hardware cloth; Dennis’ idea was to just lay the hardware cloth on top of one of the new raised beds (or even be stapled or nailed to the top of the bed), just to provide a short term “hardening off”/move to the outdoors step for the seedlings if they’re getting leggy or otherwise unhappy in our apartments. This might be a good idea, but we should be thinking about what we want to do when we transplant and plants seeds directly in the ground . . .
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