Our Other School
The kids helped to plant some more of the garden today. With 7 CSA customers this year, we've had to change our gardening style a bit. We're taking a more intensive approach, planting more of everything - and closer together.
Onion-planting has become a family tradition for us. The kids love how easy it is - onions are so tough and forgiving. They like the little bulbs we buy, and they like poking them in the ground. It's a job where even the 5-year-old can give significant help.
The other relatively new tradition we have (as of last year, when we began using a raised-bed planting style) is the creation of garden paths. The kids love this part. As we plant each bed, they get to walk or hop around it, creating a narrow packed trail that's fairly resistant to weeds because of its hardness.
Though we lay aside any books for a few weeks at this time of year, we'll pick them up again in mid-July when the afternoons become unbearably hot. Then, we're back to hands-on as the harvest and canning get into full swing in the last half of August.
Onion-planting has become a family tradition for us. The kids love how easy it is - onions are so tough and forgiving. They like the little bulbs we buy, and they like poking them in the ground. It's a job where even the 5-year-old can give significant help.
The other relatively new tradition we have (as of last year, when we began using a raised-bed planting style) is the creation of garden paths. The kids love this part. As we plant each bed, they get to walk or hop around it, creating a narrow packed trail that's fairly resistant to weeds because of its hardness.
Though we lay aside any books for a few weeks at this time of year, we'll pick them up again in mid-July when the afternoons become unbearably hot. Then, we're back to hands-on as the harvest and canning get into full swing in the last half of August.
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2 Comments:
Cat-
I have probably already told you that I have previously been a member of 2 CSA's and I am looking for one in Oklahoma when we get there. It is great to hear about it more from the farmers point of view. :-)
I have had a couple of raised bed "square foot gardening" plots over the years (remember- we are military and move far too often) and have found that they really can produce a lot of food and as long as you add compost each year it seems to do well.
---Terrill
By Terrill, At May 17, 2007 2:57 PM
I've got an onion question for you! I never pulled up last years onions and now the long green stalks have bloomed a pod like thing. What's up with that?
By Gina, At May 17, 2007 8:50 PM
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