This year as part of our MLK day of service we completed three projects that are new to our gardens and student's at school and home ability to grow more food during the winter.
For our first project, parents built and added a bamboo trellis to our canoe garden in anticipation of our spring peas, and summer cucumbers and nasturtium. One of our parents has more than enough bamboo growing in her backyard so we harvested bamboo on Friday and brought it to school for our trellises. We will also be adding bamboo trellises to our raised beds once the designs are complete this spring.
Our second project was creating four salad boxes using the University of Maryland Extension's plans. They measure 15x21 and we will be starting them indoors under artificial lights to get a crop or two before moving them outdoors in the spring.
Our third project was recycling plastic grape tomato and salad boxes from the grocery store and creating mini-green houses for micro-greens. Students made and seeded their mini-green houses and took the home to grow.
The plans for the trellises, salad boxes, and mini-green houses were made available for all families to take home and experiment with.
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