Thursday, May 10, 2012

Gardening At Work

I have been trying to bring a little greenery inside where I work by bringing in some plants. Plants tend to soften the look of any place they are put. I have these behind the membership desk where they can be seen when people come in.
Some of you may remember that I work at the Boys and Girls Club here and that we also got some raised beds for our children to garden in last fall.

Through the winter the children grew turnips in the gardens but since then they have basically sat empty until yesterday when our Unit Director got us some plants. I myself had bought trowels and seeds as well.

So yesterday some of  the children were taken out and they planted. They had tomatoes, peppers, watermelon, cantaloupe, and the seeds to plant.

 It is a wonderful thing to be able to do with the children and I think it is catching on. We are located  here in the housing project here in Thomson and there has always been one house that caught my eye every spring because they plant a garden but this year I noticed that there are three houses with gardens right by the Club.

We are truly hoping no one bothers our gardens at the Club. We had initially wanted a fence around it but were not able to get one and the children in the neighborhood are a bit rough on anything left outside. Here are pictures of the ones with the plants in them.
Tomatoes and peppers
Cantaloupe and watermelon (I think)
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8 comments:

  1. AWESOME getting the little ones involved. I almost wish gardening was a required course at some point in school...good job!

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    1. Agriculture is required at our high school here but it is not the same as just planting something and seeing it grow into something you can eat.

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  2. That's such a nice thing to involve kinds in gardening. If my mother hadn't involved me and my sister when we were younger to help raise her garden they I wouldn't have discovered the joys of gardening as an adult now.

    I hope the kids in the neighborhood leave yours plants alone.

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  3. That is wonderful, you will make an impression on their lives forever and they are learning about nature, too.
    Carolyn

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  4. I think it's great! But to be honest, I hated working in mymothers garden when I was a child... Ironic...

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    1. It wasn't much work for them and they only had to participate if they wanted to so not exactly like working in the garden as a kid (I hated pulling weeds and picking rocks).

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  5. It is good for children to see where food comes from rather than thinking everything comes from a supermarket.

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    1. It is am ambitious project for us to take on here as we mostly are short staffed, too many programs and not enough people to run them and sadly very short of supplies but we are trying.

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