I'm a seed. I'm a seed too!

Kindergartners have been reading a book with the above title. One seed is a marigold seed, the other a pumpkin seed. As you can imagine the two seeds have quite the adventure - I won't spoil the story for you...

Anywho, this fall Kindergartners went to a farm to pick pumpkins, but they still had no idea what a marigold looked like (even though they are all around the school). So today we had them investigate the marigolds at school. They learned how seeds are formed within the flower, how to deadhead, how to harvest the seed, and how to plant the seed.

We planted two flats. One filled with seeds from the deadheads and one filled with seeds bought from Burpee. The students will watch and see which are the most prolific, and robust.

This should be a very fun experiment for these young scientists!