Gardening Club - Summer 1

Session aim: To have begun to prepare planting areas for this term, and to sow pak choi.

In this session, children will work together to prepare your planting areas needed for the sessions and sow pak choi.

Session Aim: To have decided on our gardening jobs, and sown carrots.

By the end of this session, your group will have decided on the various gardening jobs that will need to be done each week and look at how to succesfully plant carrot seeds.

Session Aim: To have discussed garden pests and sown calendula.

In this session, your children will play games to understand more about garden food webs and will take a closer look at dealing with garden pests, as well as sowing their calendula seeds.

Session Aim: To explore aromatic plants and to sow chives.

This session will give your children the opporutnity to understand how aromatic plants can help protect crops. They will finish by sowing their chive seeds to revisit in later sessions.

Session Aim: To look after the potatoes.

In this session, children will be revisiting the potatoes planted in the Spring 2 Gardening club, but don't worry if you've only started your club this term - there's plenty of activities inside to keep your children busy if you haven't got any potato plants already!

Session Aim: To harvest pak choi.

This session gives your children the chance to harvest one of their crops and see what it tastes like! It's a great session for teaching children more about 'farm to fork'!

Crops included: Pak choi, Carrots, Calendula, Chives

These crop cards are to be used in combination with your Summer 1 after school club gardening pack. They contain everything you need to be able to sow, grow and harvest successfully with your children in your school garden or grounds and are suitable to be used with children across the primary age range.

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