fall+gardens


 * In the fall, the students begin working on 6 different campus gardens. The projects in the garden allow the students to participate in a year long study using the scientific process. Students develop their own questions and make predictions of which garden will grow best looking at all possible variables. **




 * Here are some wiki pages from our gardens at The Haverford School **


 * 2010 - 2011 Haverford Garden wiki page **


 * 2011-12 Haverford Garden wiki page **

**Campus Garden Time Line**

**September** garden care and clean up

**October** soil testing - sand, silt, clay test - pH test, N P K tests prepare for planting bulbs

**November** measure weight and circumference of bulbs taking a survey of all six campus gardens - looking at soil quality, light, shade, temperature, slope, traffic, etc planting Emperor Red Tulips in Six Different Gardens and making predictions planting other perennial bulbs -snowdrops, crocuses, blue squill, glory-in-the-snow, grape hyacynth, daffodil, tulips, irises, allium mapping the gardens, recording where each tulip was planted in the gardens each student creates a reflection square to place on a large reflection quilt in the hallway

**December** - checking on the gardens, quality of the soil, temperature, snow depth February

**late February** snowdrops bloom

**March** crocus, blue squill, some daffodils bloom

**April** tulips bloom measure the height of each garden to see what garden has grown best make drawings and sketches of the tulips tulip dissection use light microscope and electron microscope to observe the parts of a flower

glory-in- the snow bloom, daffodils bloom, grape hyacinth bloom

**May** Service Learning Project soil testing in the garden - help amend and improve the soil preparing the spring and summer gardens planting annuals, cleaning the garden, weeding the garden

2nd grade students release butterflies they have been studying 3rd graders plant marigolds that they germinated indoors 4th and 5th graders work in the garden
 * Late May **