Filed under: Play in the Dirt, Victory Gardens | Tags: 4-H, Barnesville Street Community Church, Barnesville Street Montessori School, Bluebird Victory Garden, community garden, FFA, Gerber Daisies, Greensun, Greensun Gardens, Maximilian Sunflowers, Sunflowers, Victory Garden
Filed under: 4-H, Victory Gardens | Tags: 4-H, 4-H Victory Gardens, Barnesville Street Community Church, Greensun, Greensun Gardens, Victory, Victory Garden
As part of an onsite community Victory Garden with 4-H, Greensun will facilitate a service project on May 15, 2009. Click here to see Plowing Song in Michigan State University Archives. There will be an end of the year party for 4-H members who participate in the Victory Garden service project with prizes and fun.
Click here to see the arts education V design above at North Carolina State.
Click here for enlargement of the poster photo.
Filed under: Barnesville Street School, Sunlit Living, Victory Gardens | Tags: 4H, A Kinder Garden, All I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindegarten, Barnesville Street Community Church, Barnesville Street Montessori School, community garden, FFA, Garden Development, Greensun, Greensun Gardens, lessons, Robert Fulghum, Sunlit Living, Sustainable Living, Victory Garden, Victory Garden Coach
All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten
by Robert Fulghum
Most of what I really need
To know about how to live
And what to do and how to be
I learned in kindergarten.
Wisdom was not at the top
Of the graduate school mountain,
But there in the sandpile at Sunday school.
These are the things I learned:
Share everything.
Play fair.
Don’t hit people.
Put things back where you found them.
Clean up your own mess.
Don’t take things that aren’t yours.
Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody.
Wash your hands before you eat.
Flush.
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
Live a balanced life -
Learn some and think some
And draw and paint and sing and dance
And play and work everyday some.
Take a nap every afternoon.
When you go out into the world,
Watch out for traffic,
Hold hands and stick together.
Be aware of wonder.
Filed under: Vegetable Gardens | Tags: Greensun, Greensun Gardens, Jefferson, Monticello Vegetable Gardens
Here is a link to the Jefferson garden diagram.
Filed under: Planet Garden | Tags: Eco-Friendly links, Eco-Friendly Resource Guide, EE, Greensun, Greensun Gardens, Greensun mission, Greensun Recycling, Greensun Resource Guide, Planet Garden
“We want our planet to be a garden, not a landfill. So we have fun developing and educating about recycling through the arts.”
Planet Garden is the Greensun Mission. Click here to visit Planet Garden, an Eco-Friendly Resource Guide of online EE links.
Filed under: FFA, Play in the Dirt, Victory Gardens | Tags: Best Planting Day in Georgia, community victory garden, Good Friday, Greensun, Greensun Gardens, planting day, Supervised Ag Experience
- Good Friday, April 10 Planting Day
Akins Feed & Seed in Griffin Georgia recommended Good Friday, April 10 as a safe planting day in the middle GA region. Greensun will facilitate planting the community victory garden on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, April 9-11, 2009. On Friday April 17, from 3:30-5:00 the FFA Supervised Ag Experience will have a Planting Party onsite.
Filed under: Victory Garden Partners, Victory Gardens | Tags: B & B Feed & Seed, Garden planting design, Greensun, Greensun Recycling, Victory Garden
Victory Garden planting design guidance was offered by B & B Feed and Seed specifically to meet the Georgia Region growing conditions and the location, size and layout of the victory garden. B & B generously gave a variety of seeds for the community victory garden project.
Advice on planting dates varies. Hastings Victory Garden Seminar leader recommended planting after April 15th. Akins Feed & Seed in Griffin Georgia recommended planting on Good Friday, April 10th. Shawn Fry our landcape designer stated after the Canadian Geese return it is safe to plant and they have already flown over Upson County.
Planter 1
1 row crookneck squash
1 row straightneck squash
1 row zucchini
Planter 2
2 rows okra (rear)
2 rows green bush beans (front)
Planter 3
8 rows spinach
2 rows green onions
Planter 4
Lima Beans
2 rows Jackson Wonder
2 rows Fordhook
Planter 5
Eggplant (rear)
3 rows red, yellow, green bell peppers
Planter 6
Herb garden plants include Basil, dill, rosemary, lemon grass, catnip, chives, lavender and more.
Recommended for hill planting in the vegetable garden are pumpkin, canteloupe and watermelon.
Row crops include tomatoes, purple hull peas, black eyed peas, sugar snap peas, English peas, Mesclun lettuces and radishes.
Garden flowers include Skyscraper Sunflowers, Giant Zinnias (Violet Queen & Enchantress) and Crackerjack Marigolds.
Filed under: Plant & Seed Exchange | Tags: Barnesville Street Community Church, Barnesville Street Montessori School, Clean air plants, community garden, Gerber Daisies clean air, Gerber Daisy, Greensun, Greensun Gardens, Greensun Plant and Seed Exchange, NASA study on plants that clean up air, Top 10 clean air plants, Victory Garden
NASA ranks Gerbers #4 of clean air plants
Greensun received a truck of 30 Gerber (Botanical – Gerbera) Daisies in assorted bright colors from a very helpful and generous local grower for the community victory garden project. Click here to see flower planting slideshow.
We are especially appreciative of the clean air impact Gerber Daisies were found to have being ranked #4 of NASA’s Top 10 Clean Air Plants.
The grower stated these flowers thrive and bloom with low nigrogen, High PK and PH between 5.5-6. Limestone around the plants was suggested and lime in the bed. The plants should be planted only as deep as the pots. Roots should be loosened if pot bound as these plants came from a greenhouse environment. Gerbera is from the sunflower family originating in South Africa.
Because it is early summer, Gerbers will be planted in a sunny location, kept evenly moist in well-drained soil where they may bloom on until frost.
Click here to read why NASA ranks the Gerber Daisy on the list for plants that clean up the environment. Click here for the NASA list of top 10 clean air plants.
NASA Study: TOP 10 List of Clean Air Plants most effective in removing Formaldehyde, Benzene & Carbon Monoxide from the air
- Bamboo Palm
- Chinese Evergreen
- English Ivy
- Gerber Daisy
- Janet Craig
- Marginata
- Corn Plant
- Mother-in-law’s Tongue
- Pot Mum
- Peace Lily
Filed under: FFA, Victory Garden Partners, Victory Gardens | Tags: 4-H Victory Garden, B & B Feed & Seed, Barnesville Street Community Church, Barnesville Street Montessori School, community garden, Diversified Site Solutions, DSS, Eco-friendly communities, FFA Victory Garden, Greensun, Greensun Gardens, Greensun Recycling, gro green, Matt Andrews, Sustainable Living, Victory Garden
“Matt Andrews is a good Scout.” This is an accurate statement describing a generous leader who has given his time and skill to our community victory garden project. Without him, the project could not have gotten off the ground, literally. Matt Andrews, Owner of DSS, came to the victory garden site with his excavator, tractor and tiller and worked to remove a gravel parking lot at the old R.C. Cola Building in Thomaston, Georgia. Cody Boyt worked to till the soil using a small farm tractor and rear tiller.
We are happy Matt likes to play in the dirt!
He has given us the opportunity to make the project a once in a lifetime experience for transformation in our community. DSS is a dream come true for the partners in this project. Because of Diversified Site Solutions, this will be now be a viable SAE (supervised ag experience) for FFA. Also University of Georgia Upson 4-H is working onsite in May for a 4-H Service Project. Children at the Barnesville Street Montessori School will participate in each stage of the garden development and growth.
Diversified Site Solutions is second to none for site preparation and has broken the barrier so our community can work together on this victory garden effort.
