Garden Classroom – Page 9 – Tracie's Treasures

Wildlife Wanderers and the Garden Classroom

Posted on 22nd Feb 202111th Aug 2021 by Tracie Dowling

We have been so busy in the Garden Classroom getting ready for Spring and the good weather.

We started germinating the seeds in the warmth of the house as its so cold outside. In a couple of weeks we can put them in the frame to grow lots of strong roots and harden off before growing outdoors. The children have enjoyed using old milk cartons and juice bottles to sow the seeds in or repot them individually so they can watch the growth on the roots.

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Garden Challenge 2021: Phyllis’ February Update

Posted on 21st Feb 202111th Aug 2021 by Tracie Dowling

Phyllis has been working hard in her garden, building and digging her raised beds ready for next month.

The seeds Phyllis has sown have started to grow. They are in the conservatory keeping warm at the moment, when strong enough after the last frost in March, Phyllis will start hardening them off to go into the raised beds.

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Garden Challenge 2021: Gemma’s February Update

Posted on 21st Feb 202111th Aug 2021 by Tracie Dowling

It is now the end of February and Gemma, Chloe and baby Jack have been working hard in the garden. Even Micky got stuck in removing a tree stump.

Gemma had these packing cartons and decided to recycle them into plant pots for her seedings.

After a week, the seeds have started to grow. The lid of the meal dishes make a great ecosystem keeping them self watered.

Chloe has been busy with her growing plants. The Pink pot has won by having seedlings growing well!

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Recycling and Growing Seeds

Posted on 18th Feb 202111th Aug 2021 by Tracie Dowling

It was wet and windy today so we decided to stay indoors to sow our seeds. We used items out of our Recycling bin to fill up with soil and sow the seeds.

Martha found this egg box and said she thought it would be good to sow individual seeds. Ivor said we might be able to see the roots grow too! The children loved the marks the egg box made in the soil.

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Avocado Growing

Posted on 9th Feb 202111th Aug 2021 by Tracie Dowling

Two years ago we decided to grow an avocado stone. The Little Seedlings tried the Avocado fruit. Only one out of five Seedlings liked it!

We had another go last year. This time we placed the stone into water using a special ‘Avoseedo’ tool. We waited for it to grow and after about nine weeks the stone started splitting.

About six weeks later, a small sprout appeared at the tip and roots began to form at the bottom. Two months went by… then the roots and shoots began to get stronger. In June, we planted the small tree into a pot with soil.

We were given another stone by our neighbour and decided to try growing that too. We now have two thriving trees.

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Icy Outdoor Play

Posted on 8th Feb 202111th Aug 2021 by Tracie Dowling

On our walk around the garden today we found everything had turned to ice! Theo pointed to the spade and Fearne tried to pick it up. When we carefully moved the spade we saw it had left a print in the ice in the shape of a spade!

We decided to look around the garden and find different shapes and frozen solid items.

While we were looking for frozen areas around the garden, Fearne found:

Theo copied Fearne, looking around and found:

Its lovely to find winter treasures in our garden! What have you got growing or freezing in your garden this winter?

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Hand Picked Flower Printing

Posted on 5th Feb 202111th Aug 2021 by Tracie Dowling

While we were all out it the garden, the Little Seedlings kept trying to pick the pretty flowers. We made it into an activity by making some amazing flower prints on fabric and paper. First we got some cotton napkins, placed the flowers on one side and folded the napkin in half to cover the flowers. We all had fun bashing the napkin with a rolling pin.

After a few minutes, we opened up the napkin and carefully peeled off the squidgy flowers. The patterns made by the flowers were very pretty and printed on both sides of the napkin like a butterfly.

The children enjoyed this activity and extended it by mixing paints to make different colours, shades, prints.

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Garden Challenge 2021: Tracie’s Focus Area

Posted on 4th Feb 20218th Feb 2021 by Tracie Dowling

Tracie has a lot of nooks and crannies where she grows in her garden and she has decided to use the back end of the garden (where she gets the most sun!) for her growing challenge.