Planting and Maintaining Your School Garden
Gardens for Learing: Creating and Sustaining Your School Garden Chapter 7 - Planting Your School Garden, Chapter 8 - Maintaining Your School Garden
CSGN's School Garden Planting Guide, pages 63-68, in Chapter 7 - Planting Your School Garden
This comprehensive guide includes suggested vegetables, herbs and flowers to plant in the fall and the spring. In addition the guide includes the following information: when to plant seeds indoors, when to plant outdoors (based on frost dates), depth to plant seed, spacing of plants, days to germination, days to harvest and nutrients content of vegetables. Find frost dates for California at the Victory Seeds Web site or contact your local Master Gardener.
IPM in Schools Cheryl Reynolds, Mary Louise Flint, Joyce Strand
This interactive program was created for school IPM coordinators, administrators, maintenance staff, private contractors and others involved in managing pests in schools. Anyone interested in less toxic stratgies who manages pests in and around public or private buildings will find this information useful. Four self-contained modules are included in the 2-disc package:
General IPM Principles
Ants
Cockroaches
Weeds
Each module includes a narrated presentation filled with colorful images and videos followed by a series of interactive situations that encourage audience participation and reinforce key points.
Handouts and ideas for hands-on activities are also included. Each of the four modules takes about 40 minutes to complete. Can be played on any DVD player including computers with DVD drives.
Created by the University of California Statewide IPM Program in cooperation with the California Department of Pesticide Regulation IPM for Schools Program.
6589D $35.00 For more Information visit: ANR Catalog
University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources Catalog
Search the ANR Catalog for hundreds of resources for purchase and free downloads. Many publications are relevant to sustaining and instructing in school gardens. including:: California Master Gardener Handbook, Honey Bee Education Posters, Soil Map of California, Natural Enemies Are Your Allies (beneficail insect ID poster), Home Canning Guides, Home Vegetable Gardening, and slide show on How to Begin A School Garden and A School Garden Curriculum.
Click on the "Free Publications" link to download information on growing vegetables, trees, pest control and more.
More information on vegetable, flower and herb planting, care, and harvest can be found at:
- Organic Gardening.com: Get gardening tips, sign up for monthly garden reports for your area, and simplified information on the care and harvest of garden
- National Gardening Association's Food Garden Guide: Detailed information on planting, care and harvesting of garden plants.
- National Gardening Association's Regional Reports: Get gardening information for your region, sign up for bimonthly gardening tips.
- Burpee.com: Great information on gardening and seed catalog, sign up for regional garden reports, visit their "library" for plant care and harvest information. visit their "nutrition guide" for vegetable nutrient content and garden kitchen tips.
- Bonnie Plants: Simple and concise information on growing common vegetables and herbs. This site also has tips for harvesting vegetables.
- Southern California month by month gardening tips and planting ideas.
UCSC Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems
"For the Gardener - Downloadable Organic Gardening Tip Sheets"
10 Terrific Vegetables and Everything You Need to Grow Them. Richardson,Barbara, Amy Gifford, Charlie Nardozzi and Eve Pranis South Burlington, VT: National Gardening Association, 2002.
Sunset Western Garden Book Kathleen Norris Brenzel (Editor) A great garden resource with thousands of plant descriptions and growing tips. Includes hundreds of how to gardening tips.
California Association Nurseries and Garden Centers Curriculum
Planting Seeds Growing Minds was designed to help K-6 students acquire facts and information related to plants by using the scientific processes of observing, gathering data, categorizing and sequencing.
Investigations in Horticulture was designed to help 7th-8th grade students develop an awareness of the many varied facets of horticulture, develop positive attitudes toward the impact of horticulture on society, and understand the nutritional, aesthetic, environmental, and therapeutic values of horticulture.
Vegetable Varieties for Gardeners
from the Department of Horticulture at Cornell University
vegvariety.cornell.edu
Curious which vegetable varieties might grow best in your garden? Cornell researchers are, too. This site compiles information from your fellow gardeners to help you decide what to grow. Search or browse to see detailed descriptions of more than 5,000 vegetable varieties and how other gardeners have rated many of them. You may also enter your own ratings and comments on varieties you have planted. |