Last year, we bought a small strawberry jar, similar to the one pictured below, but we never got around to planting strawberries. This year, we hope to use our strawberry jar to grow some yummy strawberries!
Last year, when my inner-Scholarly Mama started to call our little container garden our “Explore & Discover Garden,” I had the hope that it would provide a source of learning for our children as well as a meaningful and purposeful way for us to spend time together as a family.
We’re turning that hope into a plan this year. I found a few early childhood curricula based on gardening and outdoor learning, and Mike and I decided on Early Sprouts, a preschool curriculum that I found through Gardening with Kids, which I came across via the National Gardening Association’s website.
I’m happy to report that our book should arrive within a week. 🙂 I’m looking forward to adapting lessons for our region and our family’s needs!
Here’s our garden site plan. We created the site map using Gardener’s Supply Kitchen Garden Planner, a free, online planning tool, and we used Picnik to edit it.
