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Global Garden Expedition Briefing
February 25 - March 1, 2002
Preparing
your garden Area and Soil
Once you have your garden design on paper and you have cleared the area you are ready to begin to get the soil ready for planting. Follow this lesson to check on your soil temperature and condition.
Keeping a Garden Journal
Now that we are begining our garden preparation for Spring it is time to make your Garden Journal something you keep notes in as often as possible.
Follow the link above to get some basic instructions in putting your Garden Journal together.
Preparing your Garden Rows
Review this unit on preparation of the rows in your garden.
Latter this week we will post photos of the laying out of markers and strings for the Camp Internet Garden to get our rows in place for seeds next month.
Goto: http://www.rain.org/global-garden/moon.html to learn more.
The best moon planting days coming up are March 12-13, 17-18, and the 22nd.
If you have plans on paper or photos of your garden area send them over to camp@campinternet.net.
Starting your
school Garden Plans
We will begin to practice working in teams to create our Garden Plans. Follow the link above to review some of the first steps in getting the Garden Plan in place.
We also review this week some of the specific curriculum areas worked with during the Garden Project.
Spring Equinox is less than a month away. Sprouting seeds beginning this month will get us ready to put the first garden in as soon as the last frost has come by. Sometime around Spring Equinox, March 21.
The special web site and video reviewing all the Heirloom seeds being prepared for this years garden is nearly complete.
We hope to air the video for Camp Gardeners by the end of the week.
We'll talk about where to get the best Heirloom seeds (some of the Camp Garden seeds this year are traced back to 1780!).
Unit I:
General Notes on Starting Seeds
Unit II:
Sowing Seeds
Unit III:
Transplanting our Sprouts
To help in planning here is a Garden Planting Time Table
Origin Countries of our Vegetable Seeds
We continue this week with Container Gardening for making indoor window gardens. Send us any drawings, photos or reports on your classroom garden. We will post a selection of classroom gardening projects at the end of the month on a special web.
Continue your study of hydroponics. Camp Internet is looking for some innovative ideas on the use of hydroponics. Can your class make a plan for space station gardens or urban, big city gardens that uses hydroponics? Do you have some special ideas yourself? Send us a one page essay and drawing of your idea. The selected project will win a very special hydroponic unit for their classroom.
Study Unit I - Container Gardening
Goto: http://www.rain.org/global-garden/container-gardening.html
Class Project I - Container Gardening
Goto: http://www.rain.org/global-garden/container-gardening-herb-garden-planning.html for an indoor Herb Gardening project plan.
Study Unit I - Hydroponics
Goto: http://www.rain.org/global-garden/hydroponics-1.html.
Study Unit II - Hydroponics
Goto: The History of Hydroponics
New This Week
Plant Chemistry - Essential Nutrients
Master Gardner Tips - January 2002
Students and Teachers: use the Weather Observation Field Report form at http://www.rain.org/campinternet/gis/signs-of-spring-form.html
Records of weather observations by students are kept in the Camp database to let us begin to show a history of weather patterns around Camp Internet Schools. In the Spring we will produce a weather GIS map of this years reports.
camp01-gg-l@campinernet.net
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