Global Garden Expedition Briefing
February 11 - February 15, 2002
We begin this week preparing for Spring Equinox. 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.
Comming up next week will be a special web site and video reviewing all
the Heirloom seeds being prepared for this years garden.
We'll
talk about
where to get the best Heirloom seeds (some of the Camp Garden seeds this
year are traced back to 1780!).
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.
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.
