Garden

New Franklin has a beautiful new garden!

It will have annual plants (flowers and vegetables that grow for one year) and perennial plants (flowers and fruits that grow from year to year). The garden is a community space, everyone can be a part of it! We especially welcome donations of time and materials.

If anyone is donating seeds or plants, drop them off in the area between the front doors and we'll make sure they're planted.
 * Garden Wish List**
 * Trowels - we could use at least six more for hands on gardening
 * Buddleia (butterfly bush)
 * New England Asters
 * Bulbs (Genevieve’s fundraiser has some for sale)
 * Shepherd's hook style bird.

Great websites and resources

We have lettuce seedlings growing under a grow-light in the library
 * 3/12**


 * 4/11/11** Mrs. Spinney's 3rd grade class planted peas. We used rulers to measure 1 1/2" from the tip of our finger, then mentally marked the spot. We used our fingers to make holes for our peas the right depth, and planted them 2" apart from each other. Our peas should be ready in 55 - 60 days, if we get the right temperatures, sun and rain. We'll start checking our peas on June 6, 55 days from now.

Our crocuses are up! We can also see our garlic poking through the mulch. Our daffodils are almost ready to flower.


 * 10/20/**Mrs. Dennis's 3rd grade class planted crocuses. We learned that crocuses are pretty flowers that we can't eat, but they will probably be the first thing to grow in our garden in the spring. They might even grow through the snow! They are kind of like daffodils and kind of like garlic. The bulbs look like daffodil bulbs, but the crocus bulbs like to be planted 5 cm deep just like garlic.




 * 10/18/10** Mrs. Spinney's 3rd grade class planted garlic and daffodils. We learned that garlic likes to be planted 5 cm deep and 15 cm apart from each other. The first thing you do is take a whole garlic and pull it apart into the cloves. Then you plant the cloves, with their peel on.


 * How to plant garlic**




 * 10/17/10** Sunday afternoon work party at the school garden resulted in a lot of beautiful planted perennials. Perennials are plants that grow year after year.


 * 10/14/10** Mrs. Jacoby's 3rd graders planted over 40 daffodil bulbs all around the garden. We used rulers to make sure we planted them 6 inches deep and 6 inches apart from each other. We made sure to plant them pointy side up. The directions on the box were easy to follow and in the spring we will have daffodils all over!


 * 10/13/10** Mrs. O'Connor built our raised bed for our vegetables!

Great Websites and Resources
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