Planting in the Tops and Bottoms Garden

Today Ms. Fein's students planted in the Tops and Bottoms garden. We talked about what parts of the plants we eat at the beginning of school and this reinforces that discussion!

The students planted seeds and seedlings. We showed them the proper way to take a seedling out of the container which is squeezing it and pulling on the soil and not the stem.

They planted beet seeds, carrot seeds and lettuce seeds.  They planted cosmic purple carrot seeds that were donated by Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds as were the Chioggia beet seeds. In addition they planted Capitane lettuce seeds donated by Turtle Tree and lettuce merveille des quatre saisons also from Baker Creek.

They planted seedlings of carrots, lettuce, kale and broccoli.

I suggested that they see if the seeds that they planted outside grew as fast as the seeds that they planted inside earlier in the year.

Thanks to Mrs. Fein and Ms. Ashley for helping.