Week 4 Garden Club meetings were a little shorter than normal, but that's okay because we accomplished a lot. At Croft and Centerwood, we had tomato and pepper seedlings that needed to be potted up. We got our hands dirty filling medium-sized pots with some healthy potting soil and moving the soil to create a good sized hole in the middle. We then talked about how to take care of the plants during this process, remembering to hold the seedlings by the leaves, not the stems. We gently pried each plant out of the small pots and placed them carefully in their new homes.
Because the kids are as young as 4 and 5, some seedlings were treated more gently than others, but all seem to have survived the trauma. At all three Garden Clubs, we made vegetable markers with craft sticks and permanent marker in order to keep track of what we plant where.
Because we missed one week at OCC, there was no need to pot up any of the seedlings as they have only just started sprouting. Instead, we took some time to observe the progress the seeds had made in just one short week. We marveled at the little green sprouts and talked about how all the parts of the plant-to-be had been contained within the little seeds. Part of the original plan was to water the seeds we planted outdoors as a group, but it had rained during the early afternoon, giving the seeds the water they needed.
The kids at OCC also got to do some extra art projects. The kids drew pictures of the seedlings that had sprouted, and made a greenhouse out of a shoe box and clear plastic wrap for the pots that had yet to sprout.
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