Thursday, June 28, 2012

Cultivating Kids in the Garden!

Planting Melampodium in the garden.

Today in the children's garden we weeded, planted melampodium under the tree, decorated plant markers for the new plantings, retied yarn for the perimeter trellising, added trellising to the teepee and watered. Oh, and some wee folks did some general digging! Thanks for all who came out and helped out! Please stop by anytime the library is open and enjoy the garden!

Planting Melampodium in the garden.

Decorating Melampodium plant

markers for the new plantings.

Hard at work...

Decorating Melampodium plant

markers for the new plantings.

Cool!

Concentrating!

Decorating Melampodium plant

markers for the new plantings.

Decorating Melampodium plant

markers for the new plantings.

Stringing the teepee for the pole

beans and morning glories to grow up.

Working in the garden!

Stringing the teepee for the pole

beans and morning glories to grow up.

Watering!

Decorating a plant marker for the melampodium.

Wonderfully artistic plant markers!

Morning Glory and Pole Bean Teepee

Cucurbit Bed

The Three Sisters Bed: Corn, beans and squash.

Pumpkins

Alyssum and Tomato

Chives and Cucumbers

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Garden Day, Thursday, June 28th @ 10am!

Thursday, June 28, is Cultivating Kids Garden Day @ 10:00am. Join us for planting some melampodium, weeding (it is funner that you think!) and watering! Please dress for the weather and to get dirty! A hat, sunscreen and water are highly recommended!

See you there!

Mlampodium Flowers

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Cultivating Kids Garden Day

The third "Cultivating Kids" Garden Day was held on Thursday, June 14th under very sunny skies! We planted the last of the pots on the patio with flower and herb seeds. We also planted some pumpkins near the Three Sisters bed, Melons in the Cucurbit bed (see below) and pole beans and morning glory in the Teepee bed. We weeded and watered the planters and beds. Katie, our invaluable helper, strung colorful yarn between the stakes for our wax beans, nasturtium and sunflowers to grow up.

Sophie and Hannah decorating plant labels.

Sophie decorating a plant label.

Sophie and Hannah decorating plant labels.

Hannah and Sophie in the children's garden.

New Trellising in the children's garden.

Planters and Teepee.

Tomato and Alyssum plants.

Our first cucumber!

The Three Sisters bed; You can just

see the corn spouting!

Wax bean sprouts!

Giant Pumpkin seeds from local

Giant Pumpkin grower Hiram Watson!

The Cucurbit bed; A Cucurbit is a plant of the

gourd family (Cucurbitaceae), which includes

melon, pumpkin, squash, and cucumber.

The Pole Bean & Morning Glory Teepee.

Basil and Marigold plant markers.

Friday, June 8, 2012

Garden Day: Thursday, June 14th!

Join us on Thursday, June 14th from 10am to 11am for the next Cultivating Kids Garden Day! Come see what is growing in the children's garden. We will be weeding and watering, so please dress to get wet and dirty! Sunscreen, a hat and water are highly recommended! See you in the garden!

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Rain Reprieve...

Osteospermum and Raindrops

How are your gardens during all of the rain? Have folks planted their gardens yet? Let us know how your gardens are growing!

Saturday, June 2, 2012

Sun Safety Info

Be Safe in the Sun!

Here is some "Sun Safe" information from the American Cancer Society. Click here to visit the articles.