CHILDREN’S GARDENS
a place to grow food, learn skills and have fun
This booklet was prepared in May 2010 for the Children’s Gardens project in Vinnystsia Olblast, Ukraine, and was tranlated into Ukrainian by Ira Sulym in Vinnytsia.
Contents:
1. Selecting the Site
2. Design and Layout of the Garden Area
3. Building the Garden
4. Healthy Soil for Healthy Plants - Preparing the Soil
5. Seed Selection – “Snackscaping”, using varieties of vegetables that can be eaten in the garden
6. A Jump-Start Garden, starting seedling indoors
7. Planting Outside in the Garden
8. Tending the Garden – Watering, Weeding, Pest Control, Composting, Staking Plants
9. Eating and Enjoying the Harvest
10. Seed Saving
11. Garden Journal – record keeping for the garden
12. The Science of Composting and Building Compost Bins
13. Row Covers and Season Extenders
14. Sample Calendar for recording planting times, harvest times, and weather
15. Plant Data Sheet for each crop planted
16. Seed Packet Information
17. Reference List
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