Seed Starting Tips for PreK to 5th Grades
Seed Starting Tips for PreK to 5th Grades Gardening is a natural introduction to the scientific process for our young learners. Seeds are all around us, from the snacks we…
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Leaving Dried Plants
Emilia’s Garden Tips: Leaving Dried Plants – Less work, Educational, and Beneficial! See dried stems with round or oblong pods at the end of them? Instead of cutting them out…
Extending Your Growing Season with Row Cover
Emilia’s Garden Tips: Extending Your Growing Season with Row Cover The growing season and the school year calendar don’t always align – so how can we extend growing into the…
Herb Garden Goodies
Chrissy Moore, curator of the National Herb Garden, and Erin Holden, gardener in the Herb Garden, share their favorite plants that grow in the National Herb Garden and their fascinating…
Tips for Keeping Low-Maintenance Gardens over Summer
Emilia’s Garden Tips: Keeping Low-Maintenance Gardens Over Summer Step 1: Plant for Back to School Harvests & Lessons These crops need plenty of water at first to germinate but once…
Tips on Pruning Fruit Trees
Emilia’s Garden Tips: Pruning Fruit Trees Step 1: Remove Unwanted Growth Remove any dead, diseased and broken branches. Good plant hygiene best practice to prevent diseases spreading further and killing…
Children’s Books Celebrating Latine & Indigenous Cultures
Children’s Books Celebrating Latine & Indigenous Cultures The First Blade of Sweetgrass by Suzanne Greenlaw and Gabriel Frey is a story about a Wabanaki child learning her ancestral practices to…
Putting the Garden to Sleep for Winter
Emilia’s Garden Tips: Putting the Garden to Sleep for Winter Mulching & Cover Crops We highly recommend mulching and/or planting cover crops (living mulch!) to help manage soil erosion, increase…
How to Jump Start a School Garden
Emilia’s Garden Tips: How to Jump Start a School Garden What to Plant Now for Quick Harvests These crops need plenty of water at first to germinate and would appreciate…