Today is the first school garden class for spring. Since we have a heavy rainfall warning I am taking the class inside to the classroom. This one is easy as we will be making seed tapes. The students will be growing food for the food bank in four of their ten raised beds at the Ladner Community Garden. I had quite a few seeds left over from last year so we are ready to get started.
I had chosen the seeds to use, vegetables such as lettuce, mesclun greens, carrots, radishes and beets. Our beds are four feet wide so I had to do some calculating to get it in metric measure as that’s what the children learn here. Each row in the raised bed is about 122 cm. A square of toilet paper is about 10cm so I broke off a strip of toilet paper into four squares…
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