Winter:
Dreaming About Gardening
What is your favorite winter time activity? Do you live in an area where you
can play in the snow? Can you swim in the ocean? Do you have a fireplace that
your family uses in the winter? Or can you keep your windows open all winter? Do
you play inside games or outside games?Winter time in the garden means that it's dream time. It's time to plan what crops you would like to grow in it, to design your garden layout, to order seeds, and to start seed growing indoors for later transplanting into the garden. Your first garden does not need to be large; sometimes it's better to start small.
The first gardeners or farmers had to start small. Each year they would clear more trees from their land to make room for their fields.
Your Seeds of Change Garden will have three sections:
- Old World
- New World
- Exchange
The Old World and New World sections contain only plants that were available in either hemisphere before 1492. The Exchange section, which is optional, contains plans that reflect the cultural background of the students.
Using the Food History list, the class can select plants they want to grow in the Old World and New World sections. For the Exchange section, students can bring seeds from foods they eat at home or that were grown in their home gardens. While you're deciding on crops, you should be ordering seed catalogs.
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Some books to read:
Maybe Garden, The. Kimberly Burke-Weiner, Beyond Words Publishing, Inc. 1992.
A Seed is a Promise. Claire Merrill, Scholastic, 1973.
Dream Garden
Gardening Calendar
"Record Time" With a Journal
Find Out About Your Region
Bring Back the Sun
Design Your Garden
Making Pots for Seedlings
Plant Labels
Stepping Stones
