Blog Posts - School Gardens

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'Pineapple Splash' Coleus - photo by Jan JohnsenI have had a love affair with coleus ever since I grew it in plastic pots on a windowsill in a small New York city apartment as a teenager.Back then there were maybe 6 varieties of coleus avai...

 I reprint this post every year with new suggestions...time to plan 3 secrets to a successful CHILD'S VEGETABLE GARDEN:They should not be too demanding, They should offer fairly quick results The must not  require too mu...

When did we abandon the simple pleasures of growing carrots in milk cartons, planting hollyhocks along old fences or having fragrant lilacs at the corner of a house? We should reclaim this as part of our ordinary life...HollyhocksWe all have suc...

Color outdoors can make you happyAre you feeling a little down? depressed?Well here is a way to fix that -  go out and plant something...Studies have found that an hour of gardening a day reduces the risk of heart disease and stroke and inc...

Worm tubes from National Gardening Association Want to know a great way to enhance biological activity in your garden? Think of it as adding probiotics to your soil....Worm Tubes! It is a fun way to use your vegetable food waste w...

butterfly garden by Jan Johnsen Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.- Nathaniel HawthorneAnd this is why a butterfly garden should be in everyone...

 I am reprinting this post from last April...it is so timely! 3 secrets to a successful CHILD'S VEGETABLE GARDEN:They should not be too demanding, They should offer fairly quick results The must not  require too much mai...

Photo: instructables.comWhen you’re dealing with hundreds of seedlings, you quickly realize how important it is to LABEL EVERYTHING.Many seedlings look the same - especially if you are growing a multitude of varieties of basil or marigolds...BHG -...

According to Wired magazine DIRT is the The 5th best toy of all time. It comes behind STICK, BOX, STRING, and CARDBOARD TUBE. Of course, as a grown up, you may not agree but kids definitely are into the DIRT thing. Yesterday in my town of Croton on...

There is no more fitting to place to honor and remember those that were lost than in a garden.... it reminds us that  life goes on, in all Nature's wondrous  forms... I Heard an Angel by William Blake I heard an Angel si...

In one of my earlier blog posts I wrote about the Native Americans' Three Sisters Garden (corn, beans and squash ) but I neglected to tell you of the Fourth Sister...a very important member of this family! This is from Hubpages:  "Fourth...

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