Garden Club tonight!

Ran to HomeDepot last night and bought 5 gallon pails for the kids to use as planters! Way cheeper than real pots! Plan to bring up the fact that with more planning they could “find” similar containers free (from laundry soap etc) if they want to plant more.

I’m thinking we’ll discuss how to prepare a garden bed, examining the soil etc and then actually dig a bed along the back fence. I was planning to put in a small strip along the fence with some lavendar, hollyhocks and “wild” flowers so that might be a fun project for them and they can learn about conditioning soil for planting . . .

We may, if weather and time allow, do a little star gazing at the end of the evening as well. I know, what does that have to do with gardening? Not a whole lot, but its something they might enjoy and I bet a few of them have never done and it might be a good winding down activity as they will be laying back and looking up rather than running around. I just hope none of them fall asleep on top of the rock out back, I can’t carry them down!

Off to prep some materials for tonight, must be prepared!