Jul 09, 2015
A Guide to Leafy Vegetables
Carrot Varieties
to Try in Your
Containers 17 Delectable
Heirloom Tomatoes
How to Start a
Vegetable
Garden
Materials Needed:
potting soil
water
tomato seeds (1
packet)
dwarf (ball-type) carrot
seeds (1 packet)
liquid organic fertilizer
I'm about to start a second round of raised veg plants. How should I prepare/re-fertilize my soil?
Good Morning Clover ... had to run out to my raised bed that I'm covering for the Autumn / Winter here in Hardiness zone 5b Ohio. I mixed in some fresh organic material from my compost pile which is basically broken down manure and leaves. You can buy bags of 'manure' at the garden centers to add to your growing space. In the beds I'm not using but putting to rest for the winter season I spread manure directly from the bunny trays which is bunny poop and some wood chips. During the winter this combination breaks down and makes for a great soil in the spring.
* This is a great article on improving your soil : http://www.hgtv.com/design/outdoor-design/landscaping-and-hardscaping/improving-your-soil
Did well:
Gaining Attention
Defining Learning Objective
Presenting Content
Providing Guidance
Did not do as well:
Eliciting Performance
Assessing Performance
Did Well:
Calling Attention to Important Details
Selective Recognition
Helping Learner Recall Prior Knowledge
Repetition of key Information
Did not do as well:
Organizational Strategies
*mnemonics
Did well:
Activating prior knowledge
Using Meaningful Material
Anchoring Assimilation Accommodation Cognitive Load
Did not do as well:
Should not assume a general base of plant knowledge
School Gardening
In The Kitchen
Community's modular
learning gardens such as
this one in Denver,
Colorado, kids learn
hands-on work, how to
use garden tools, and fun plant facts from placards.
Organic Gardening
• biodiversity * crop rotation * compost * water conservation *• The idea is that all life forms, from the bacteria on up, work together
with as little meddling from us as possible, so manufactured fertilizers, pesticides, growth accelerants and regulators such as hormones and antibiotics, genetic engineering, sewage sludge and irradiation are off limits.
http://videos.hgtv.com/video/urban-gardening-0148310
Apartment Gardening
Community City Garden
Ron Finley has been called a renegade gardener, a gangster gardener and an eco-lutionary. His TED talk about turning South Central L.A,'s vacant lots into "food forests" has been viewed almost one million times since March. And he's been profiled in everything from The New York Times to treehugger.com.
Eating Seasonally
Locally grown seasonal produce is at its nutritional best, and is much tastier.There is a huge variety of fruits and vegetables that grow locally throughout the year.
Farm or Garden – to - Table
PreservingCanning
Drying
Recipes Pickling
Potential problems:
• We didn’t know each other before this class
• Graduate school involves unique scheduling difficulties for group work
How we made it WORK!
Initial meeting –Narrow down topic according to something in
which we were ALL interested
THREE important means of communicating:1) Blackboard Discussion Group - 40 posts ! !2)Emails3) In Class Group Time
+Communication +Flexibility +Support
Used ALL of our combined resources and skills
Asked one another for information Evaluated one another’s ideas
Although we each were able to see applications of the 3 learning theories applied throughout the events on HGTV, the main learning experience was gained through our participation in collaborative learning.The members of our team enjoyed learning about gardening almost as much as we enjoyed learning more about each other.