Welcome to the Garden Club

~Let's Grow!

Spring is here!
Time to grow!
 
        THANK YOU to PTO and Clorox/Greenworks!
The Garden Program has recieved funds from the Greenworks grant to build a hoophouse!
A hoophouse is a greenhouse structure, made with heavy plastic instead of glass. We will start contruction in early April, in the vegetable garden area. Hooray! We can grow salad greens all winter in the hoophouse!
 
 The Heatherwood School Garden Program teaches children ( and parents ) about organic gardening. We focus on vegetables, but also explore the greater plant world as well. The children have done everything from planting seeds to harvesting pumpkins and making them into muffins! This season, we will plant, build, and grow some more!
 
   The afterschool Garden Program meets on Mondays, afterschool from 2:30- 4:00.
The 1st Spring meeting is on April 4. We will start the season with a seed swap and garden tour. We  meet every Monday through May 23. Join us!
 
Please register for the season, by contacting Michele Bailey.   phone: 720.771.1219
or online: heatherwoodgarden@gmail.com
 
Log on to www.heatherwoodgarden.blogspot.com to see beautiful pictures, and read about our adventures in gardening last season! 
 
 
The Garden Program is not funded by the school budget and can always use donations!
Contact Michele to donate tools or equipment.
Monetary donations can be made to the PTO Treasurer, clearly marked for GARDEN PROGRAM.
 
THANK YOU to  Miho Shida and our parent volunteers! Its so much fun to grow with you!
We wouldnt be here without you!
 
HERE WE GROW!  

APRIL
4/4 Seed Swap, Sweet Pea planting, Storytime with Theresa, and Tool Rules
4/11 Planting Day! Transplant Lettuce, Spinach, and Cabbage plants, and sow some seeds
4/18 Trellis building with Mr. Rivers, Explore Hoophouse
*4/22 * Earth Day! This is a Friday, and there is not a meeting, but we hope to have a ribbon ceremony for the hoophouse today!
4/25 Harvest Salad, Plant Carrots, Flowers, and Tomatoes (in the hoophouse)

MAY
5/2 Mothers Day craft, and garden maintenance
5/9 Plant Pumpkins and Sunflowers
5/16 Discuss Pollinators and Beneficial Insects, Harvest Salad
5/23 Garden Party, Ladybug Release