Since we're in New England and there are night-time frosts clear into May (and heck, there's still snow on the ground!), we're starting our garden indoors. Over the weekend, we got bags of compost and potting soil and mixed them together in a big plastic box with some water, and made soil blocks. We had a piece of PVC pipe cut down and AC made a little wood plunger type thing to compact the soil within the pipe. Then we pushed it out the other end - ta da! A block of soil that we pressed our little seeds into, and then put them in the basement under heated grow lights. We planted almost 200 soil blocks with 6 different kinds of onions, about 60 tomato bushes, a few other vegetables, and lots of herbs. The first thing to sprout - in only 5 days - was the broccoli.
This is the main focus of our science learning for the year - growing the garden, plants of all kinds (food, flowers, etc), and taking care of the earth. We've been kind of ignoring science so far - we tried a couple of seed experiments on the windowsill that bombed, and read a book or two but that's about it. We're excited to get started with the garden and do some real-life, real-time learning.
Posy thought it was GREAT fun playing in the dirt in the house.
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