A look back at 37R at Snug Harbor Staten Island
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This movie is a nice look back at how P4K celebrated Plant Learn Grow in days gone by…
Everybody swooned over Baby Groot and Baby Yoda.
Well, check out THESE babies!
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- Baby Radish
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- Baby Iceberg Lettuce
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- Baby Kale
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- Baby Gherkin
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- Baby Turnip
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- Baby Cucumber
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- Baby Fennel
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- Baby all the Rest
The Stop & Shop supermarket had an indoor garden give-away, which was a kit with 20 seed pods and a tray to grow a variety of vegetables.
Here is a movie I made of my experience setting up the tray and planting the seeds.
I wonder what to do when the sprouts get too big for their little pots and need to be replanted, as I do not have outdoor access to make a real vegetable garden.
We had a pineapple the other day, and instead of throwing out the crown, I thought that I would stick it in water and see what would happen.
What do you think will happen?
It is not a “living” garden, but a rock garden is a fun-to-create indoor type of garden. All you need are rocks and pebbles found from the street, park or beach.
In Japan, rock gardens are a big deal to aid in meditation and mindfulness.
Home in NYC, my son and I made these three small rock gardens using Staten Island beach rocks and pebbles. Adding colorful shells , seedpods, or sea-glass is OK too!
Since all of us are working from home or learning from home, why not share stories about our home gardens? I’ll start.
This glass terrarium is the only garden we have in the house. In fact, there are no other plants anywhere except for inside that. We bought it pre-made from Costco (!) last year, and it has been thriving ever since. There are four spiky cactus plants, and a bigger, more classic-looking cactus in the back.
There are other plants in there, too.
Cactus-type plants are pretty forgiving — there are weeks when we forget to water it — and love sunlight. I recommend them for home-gardeners that have not had luck with other plants.
A class trip to a garden offers so many opportunities for students to taste, see, observe, touch and experience nature.
We just received this note from 368K about gardening-as-therapy and felt we had to share:
We’re writing today to highlight the success our school community has had using the garden at our site as a tool to build upon student skills, while incorporating its therapeutic benefits into conversations with our children and teenagers. We support, teach, and encourage students in one of the most restrictive school settings in New York City; our garden is a way to show our students that we care about their emotional and physical health and well-being.
Last year 368K focused on “student involvement in the preparation of the garden beds, student creation of signs, students maintaining the garden, staff helping to create an on-site market to share produce from the garden, and finally students were able to bring produce home from the garden.” This year their goals are “a Halloween pumpkin fest; a green market where we hope to have students using scales to weigh and share produce; students … actively involved in making compost for the garden; and, finally, students … using the garden along with their therapists to develop healthy coping habits.”
Thank you to The Garden Committee at P368K at New York City Children’s Center for sharing your thoughts and plans for the year.
This class at 721R is part of the Garden Partnership with Snug Harbor. Check out how teacher Joe Calcagno is using the Phenology Calendar to help students make observations about the trees outside their window. Joe also planted the seeds for the native grasses that you see sprouting in the foreground at the teacher workshop at BBG. Great work 721R!
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