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

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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.