Potato Tower

April, 30, 2017
Today the Little Diggers checked their wheat crop and crops growing in their milk crate garden. Then Jim discussed the potato with them - how, along with milk, it provides humans with a diet that can sustain them for a long time Just ask the Irish. Potatoes can grow anywhere - in compost piles, in rubber tires, on rocky soil, in potato towers. The Little Diggers then got busy preparing their potato tower and planting potatoes in it. Meanwhile, big diggers were busy preparing their own potato tower and moving the yellow greenhouse to its new location outside the garden fence. See pictures below.

Diggers in Action

April, 23
Today's in the Little Diggers' lesson the boys and girls identified assorted vegetables as to whether the vegie was the root, the stem, the leaves or the seed of the plant. Then they got busy filling their milk crates with soil and began to plant onions, lettuce and radishes, some from seed, some from seedlings.
The big diggers were busy transplanting assorted vegetables in the greenhouse.

Little Diggers First Lesson for 2017

The lesson for Little Diggers on their first time back in the garden for 2017 was: Learning to Grow Pancakes. Jim discussed what went into a pancake. Held up a stalk of wheat and asked them what wheat turns into - FLOUR! The diggers then groomed their bed and planted wheat berries. See them in action below.  See also pics of the big diggers in action working on the communal beds.