A Growing Interest

Nancie knows that growing vegetables and seeds isn't just something that happens during Springtime in the wonderful world of kindergarten. When she wanted to grow a vegetable garden, we knew just how to make that happen.

Beginning with potatoes that had eyes and onions that had sprouts, a garden centre has started.

Nancie and Harlow worked together to put in the right amount of soil and set the vegetables in with 

just the right amount of dirt on top.

They instructed other friends who came to visit the garden centre.

The pots were filled with vegetables, but the seed packets had not been planted.

How could they grow the seeds?

Nancie thought they could plant the seeds in the same pot as the tree.

The children looked at the seed packets and discussed what they needed to do.

The seeds needed to have just a small amount of dirt sprinkled over top.

Now they had to figure out what seeds were planted where! How would they know what the plants were when they begin to sprout?

The answer...labels needed to be made.

 

Then the labels were set where the seeds had been planted.

"Come and see our garden! We have carrots, cucumbers, tomatoes and parsley!"

"Look at all the tiny sprouts!"

Planting Our Seeds

We took great care to plant seeds in the Spring.

We also planted shoots.

Some seeds were planted in pots and some were planted in the sensory bin. The soil had been prepared with the compost from the decomposing pumpkin.

 

 

We experimented and observed how things grew from seeds and bulbs and shoots.

The children take care to make signs for the different types of seeds 

that have been planted.

They care for the plants and add worm juice from our famous worm hotel.

It really is just a worm composter and the plants love the juice!

     

Miss Garrett helped the children with an experiment and another way to grow seeds.

We are going to have a bumper crop of beans on our roof top garden!

 

 

We are taking good care of the plants and watching them grow and grow.

When they are big enough, we can plant them in our rooftop garden.