Thanks to our Toyota Evergreen Learning Grounds Grant, the past few weeks we have been busy starting our Kindergarten Gardens indoors where it is a little warmer than it is outside! Even though it is already mid-May, we decided to begin our growing season inside this year to see if it gave our plants some extra staying power. We realized last year that we should have done this because local wildlife helped themselves to the tiny shoots and stems that first started to sprout.
With this in mind, we currently have pumpkins, peas, beans and sunflowers growing in our window. Knowing they will need some soil to grow in, we headed outside to prep the gardens for their fast approaching arrival. Many of us already knew that the tiny plants already out in the garden, were, in fact, weeds, that needed to be pulled. By doing this, we are making sure our plants will not have to fit the roots of the weeds for the nutrients and water that we read about together.Fingers crossed that the warmer weather starts to stick around so we can get our mighty sprouts out and growing into stronger stems, leaves and eventually flowers and vegetables!
