Garden Club is open to anyone in grades 2-6. We meet most Fridays during noon (12:20). We will do a variety of activities including taking care of our school gardens, planting, games, web searches, seed activities and so on. It is a bit hard to carry on throughout the winter so we look at indoor plants and how they grow. Some times we have projects that take a bit longer than what we can do during a lunch time so we do a few after school activities such as making veggie critters, transplanting new seedlings, making crafts and so on.
See below for some of our other adventures.
See below for some of our other adventures.
HMK Green Thumbs Plant Sale 2016
Friday, May 20th, Noon outside office doors
Green Thumbs plant sale serves several purposes. First it is meant to provide growing opportunities for children. They can learn to nurture plants and observe changes and life cycles. Annuals, which will soon reward with blooms, or vegetables, where they can harvest something, work best for young children. The flats of annuals will be offered first to the children wishing to purchase plants...especially those who wish to buy something but don’t know what to buy. That will happen during morning recess.
Secondly, we use the revenue to plant flowers and vegetables in our planters and beds around our school. Some is used for soil and garden club projects throughout the year.
The list below includes some but not necessarily all plants that will be available. I've included photos of some of the perennials below the list.
Vegetables: $1 per pot or container
Annuals: $1 per tray or pot –
Perennials: $1 per pot
Herbs: $1 per pot
Fruit: $5 per pot
Shrubs – $5
Indoor plants -
Thanks for supporting our endeavours.
Thanks also to the Beautiful Plains Horticultural Society for their contributions to our club.
Friday, May 20th, Noon outside office doors
Green Thumbs plant sale serves several purposes. First it is meant to provide growing opportunities for children. They can learn to nurture plants and observe changes and life cycles. Annuals, which will soon reward with blooms, or vegetables, where they can harvest something, work best for young children. The flats of annuals will be offered first to the children wishing to purchase plants...especially those who wish to buy something but don’t know what to buy. That will happen during morning recess.
Secondly, we use the revenue to plant flowers and vegetables in our planters and beds around our school. Some is used for soil and garden club projects throughout the year.
The list below includes some but not necessarily all plants that will be available. I've included photos of some of the perennials below the list.
Vegetables: $1 per pot or container
- We have quite a few cherry tomatoes(red, yellow or black) and a few other varieties. Individual pots are sold for $1.
- Peppers - mostly packs of 4 but individual of hot varieties
- Celery (6 packs)
- Cucumber
- garlic bulbs (best started in fall but these have roots and are ready to transplant.)
Annuals: $1 per tray or pot –
- trays of approximately 4 plants: marigolds, snapdragons, verbena bonariensis, red salvia
Perennials: $1 per pot
- short – sun dianthus, mini iris, wooly lamb's ear, forget-me-not,
- sun or shade - pulmonaria(lungwort), buttercup, cranesbill, solomon's seal, alium
- medium height sun – rose campion, achillea–the pearl, firecracker loosestrife, veronica, peachleaf bellflower, lupins, catmint, Assorted Lilies, Daisy like flowers (chrysanthemum(pink, red), painted daisy, echinacea, gloriosa daisy
- ground cover - lamium
- Daylilies – red/yellow, yellow, winecup(burgundy)
- tall(4-6 feet) sun – delphinium, hollyhock, agastache
Herbs: $1 per pot
- Annual - basil, rosemary
- Perennial - oregano, lovage, chives, catnip
Fruit: $5 per pot
- Fall gold raspberry canes (about 5 to a pot). These would be difficult for children to transport. I can have them available at school any time if you let me know the day before.
- Rhubarb
Shrubs – $5
- red elder
- mini lilac
- spirea
- nanking cherry
- tatarian maple
Indoor plants -
Thanks for supporting our endeavours.
Thanks also to the Beautiful Plains Horticultural Society for their contributions to our club.
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These are some great sites to check out. The seeds are all tempting.