The+Garden+Club

=Growing Kids...=

Spend a a year in the School Garden with gardeners Trevor and Alex and their troop of growing kids...
Plant them, water them, grow them, weed them, pick them, cook them, eat them - whichever way you look it, vegetables can be fun! Harvest Time =Hooray for Spring!=
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 * [[image:words.gif]] ||  || Did you know? ... ====**//Spring//** is an old word with a meaning "to jump" or "to run".About 2000 years ago it was spelled **//spreng//**-====

However, the word spring only began to be used to name the season following Winter in the 1500s.
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Time to get to work and think about planting!

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Get the gardening gloves...
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Rake and hoe the soil to aerate it and break it up...
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Turn the soil and remove any weeds...
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readiness for planting...
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of pests and diseases...
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These can be turned into new strawberry plants...
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runner - usually the first one off the main clump...
We neaten the runners by cutting off any dead or

damaged leaves
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out to plant at home...
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self ...
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producing winter greens.
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already!
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ready for spreading over the beds...
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Tipping out the compost...
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Digging it in...
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**[|Seed Planting Guide]**
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Marking out the drills 1cm deep...
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and 1cm deep...
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Preparing the plant pots for single-seed planting...
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They should have sprouted in 4-6 weeks.
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Harvesting the last of the winter lettuces...
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Sharing out the winter greens to take home...
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Sprouting underway...
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Broccoli and cabbage...
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Preparing pots for the Giant Pumpkin Competition
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facing up not down ...
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Ready to cover and then to sprout...
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October in the Garden Beds ...

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**Plot 1**: Carrots and peas
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**Plot 2**: Peas, broccoli, lettuces, onions
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**Plot 3**: Peas, potatoes, lettuces
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**Plot 4:** Strawberries
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**Plot 5:** Cabbages and celery
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**Plot 6:** Lettuces and zucchini
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The herb garden
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competition.
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Picking...
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Washing....
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Eating...
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