Planting Gardens
The PPT has been funding our raised bed garden, butterfly garden and school beautification projects for many years. We currently have six raised bed gardens that are planted and maintained by classrooms, a new Bee Pollinator garden planted by 2nd grade, a new strawberry patch maintained by Carrie Graff’s 3rd grade classroom, a greenhouse and storage shed. We start plants in the classroom and then move them to the greenhouse to harden them off before transplanting to the gardens.
This week 2nd graders, as part of their new Amplify Science curriculum (again funded by your PPT dollars!) created Seed Dispersal Systems and used those devices to spread 8,000 Bee friendly seeds. Thanks to the rains yesterday and today, they should be well-watered.
This week and next week we will be setting out cabbage plants, onions, tomatoes. peppers, mini gourds, pumpkins, flowers and watermelons.
