Garden Time
Please join me for garden lessons, activity ideas & recipe shares. I hope you are inspired to get out in your garden to plant, observe, harvest & eat fresh vegetables.
Please email your questions & garden shares at: sbirnbaum@sebusd.org
Please go to the Weekly Lessons tab to find NEW videos & activities.
Compost Tea Demonstration
It's lots of fun to make compost tea and your plants will love it!
Easy DIY Compost Tea Recipe
Non-chlorinated tap water (enough to fill a 5-gallon pail)
2 cups fully finished organic compost (it should smell nice!)
1 tablespoon unsulfured blackstrap molasses
1 tablespoon liquid kelp fertilizer (or soak kelp meal in water)
1 teaspoon liquid fish fertilizer
Insect Safari
Do you like bugs? You can go on an insect safari to discover the bugs that live in your backyard. Go outside with a jar and a bug net if you have one, look under rocks, on the underside of leaves, at the base of trees and see what you can find. Remember to be gentle with the bugs and let them go if you capture them. Take pictures of some of the bugs you find and send then to me - sbirnbaum@sebusd.org
Also, you can look at this online bug guide to identify the bugs you find https://bugguide.net/node/view/3/bgpag
