Growing things that are green and kids who love the outdoors!
Have you ever found seeds and did not know what they were? My mom and I are starting our fall garden. We were looking at some seeds and we noticed some that had spilled, Our question is what do farmers do when this happens? What are these seeds if anyone knows please add them in […]
It’s been a busy week of animal and insect sightings around the garden. I’ve seen everything from butterflies to creepy crawlies and even a new lizard and a frog! Check out the pictures and videos below and chose one to write a blog post about. Remember to go to this post and answer all of […]
Being part of the Meadow Glen garden club is a lot of fun. As a garden club member you will learn how to grow your own food working with Señor Frank and your friends in the club to plant, water, and weed our gardens. You will learn about the plants, insects, and animals that live […]
Last weekend I picked up tomato plants from Ralph Whalen in Irmo and Sunflower Seeds from Justin Eaddy. Ralph grows many different varieties of tomato plants every year for his church garden and gives many of the plants he grows away. Ralph really knows tomatoes! He grows healthy, strong plants and is as generous with […]
We have been doing a lot of work with the seeds we have saved from this year’s garden. This was one of the first days we worked on removing the chaff from the amaranth seeds. Porter helped to save the last of the zinnia flower seeds by removing the dead flower heads from the plants […]
Fall and Winter are two of the best seasons for gardening in South Carolina. Our temperatures rarely drop below freezing, and when they do, we can always protect our veggies by covering them with sheets. Obviously, the colder months are not the time to grow warm weather crops though. The tomatoes, beans, okra, and cucumbers […]
From time to time this year when I had a break I would take a walk to the garden on the other side of the 4th grade wing that’s located on the kindergarten playground. In garden club we refer to this as “the other side of the world”. If the kindergarteners were out on the […]
Pick a plant, butterfly, or bird that could be found in our school garden, and write a profile blog post for our school garden blog. Remember that if you pick a butterfly or bird it must be one that is found in South Carolina! To write your post: 1. Copy and paste the questions below […]
Welcome to your application for the Meadow Glen Elementary School Garden Club. Our garden club will meet on Tuesdays after school from dismissal to 4:00 starting in August. We will plant vegetables and flowers, weed and water our gardens, and learn about the plants and animals found in and around our gardens. Garden club members […]
This weekend Meredith and I went up to Burnsville, NC. Coming to the mountains of Western North Carolina is like traveling back in time for me. In one way it’s like going back a month or two. In another way it’s like going back decades to a time when I lived in another part of […]