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  • 1.  Summer Garden Maintenance

    Posted 06-09-2022 03:30:00 PM
    Summer is right around the corner! I'm wondering if people have tips about how they maintain school gardens during the summer... For example, how do you handle watering, weeding and harvesting? Do you have ways that you include children in school garden activities during summer break?
    Thanks and Happy Gardening!

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    Erica Krug
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  • 2.  RE: Summer Garden Maintenance

    Posted 06-15-2022 12:11:00 PM
    In the past I have stopped by the garden (ours is only three raised beds in the Community Garden) and have weeded and harvested.  This year we have teamed up with Farm to School Coordinators and our local community library to have a garden program that takes place once a week.  F2S volunteers will be teaching adults and students how to garden using our beds as their workspace.  This way our bed are maintained and harvested throughout the summer.

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    Patty Parsons
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  • 3.  RE: Summer Garden Maintenance

    Posted 06-18-2022 07:20:00 PM
    Giving faculty and staff the opportunity to sign up for days or weeks to volunteer then open it up to parents to volunteer. Involving summer school classes even it is just watering daily. Give yourself permission to rest in the summer and return to plant a fall garden is another possibility.

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    Jena Simms
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  • 4.  RE: Summer Garden Maintenance

    Posted 06-15-2022 02:21:00 PM
    We are a year round child care program operated in a public school.  This allows us to continue our garden program throughout the summer months. It is definitely great to be here in the summer to enjoy the garden with the children.  So far we have used "kid power" to water our garden. As soon as we get outside in the morning kids run for the watering cans. Yesterday our preschool and school age class made refrigerator pickles with store bought cucumbers and our freshly harvested dill and garlic scapes.  Tomorrow our plan is to make mint tea with our over active mint patch. It will also be exciting in the fall when more of our children return for the school year, they will be just in time to harvest our pizza/ salsa garden.  If I wasn't here in the summer, I think I'd do a volunteer evening one night a week and invite families to come with their children to help out and socialize.

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    Vicki Uden
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  • 5.  RE: Summer Garden Maintenance

    Posted 07-26-2023 05:27:00 AM

    Hi there I am happy to help you with the summer garden maintenance and protection. There are many things that you should do for it but one that I experienced is how we can protect our summer garden from animals. You should research in the way that your plants and surrounding animals. In the same way, actually, I have mum plant. I was searching about do deer eat mums because there many deer around my garden. So you will also think about it.



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    waqar mir
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