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Camp Internet's Global Gardening Studies are open to all Camp Expedition Teams. RAIN's Youth Technology Corps members are Expedition Team Leaders for Communities taking part.
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Windowsill Gardening
Once you have selected your location for the classroom window garden make drawings of the area.
Put together teams, responsible for :
While you are preparing your plans and the window sill box here are some projects you can do in your window garden area right away:
Avocado:
Insert three toothpicks, evenly spaced, around the middle of an avocado seed. Suspend the pit in a glass of water, being sure the water always covers the bottom of the seed. Eventually the seed will crack and a seedling will emerge from the top.
When it is about 8 cm tall, transplant it into a pot filled with soil.
Orange and grapefruit:
Soak the seeds in water for a few hours to soften the seed coating. Put some potting soil in the bottom of a paper cup. Drop three or four seeds onto the soil and cover them with more soil to about four times the thickness of the seeds. Keep the soil moist. It may take a while for the seeds to sprout, so just be patient.
Pineapples:
Cut the stem off a pineapple about 5 cm below the place where it joins the fruit; leave the pineapple top on its side and let it dry out for two days. In the bottom half of a 2 L milk carton, pierce a couple of holes for drainage. Fill the carton with moist sand and plant the pineapple top in it so that the bottom is just covered. Put it in a sunny window and keep the sand moist. In about two months, your plant will have developed roots and be large enough to transplant to a larger container. Water with a diluted liquid fertilizer every month or so. You will have a lovely foliage plant.
Sweet potatoes:
Sweet potatoes can provide a viny frame for a window. Choose two sweet potatoes with many eyes. About 2.5 cm above one end of each potato, insert three toothpicks, evenly spaced, around the potato. Make sure there are several eyes on the part above the toothpicks. Put each potato in a glass jar of water so that water covers the bottom end of the potato. Choose a bright window and put the glass jars at either end of the windowsill.
In about two weeks, green sprouts will start growing from the eyes of the potatoes.
As the vines begin to grow, make supports for them by fastening string around the window frame, and train them up.