Planting!

The service time at the BUGS garden started at 10 a.m. The first 45 minutes of the morning was spent having a lesson on everything we needed to know about planting seeds in the garden. I learned all about the ideal temperatures for many crops to germinate, and how today we would focus on the cold-weather crops. These crops could germinate and survive in colder temperature. We went over the different seeds, the spacing each needed, the depth at which they needed to be placed, and how to prep the beds.

First, we prepped the beds. This was done by removing any large rocks from the surface, removing any weeds, and raking over the beds to even them out.

We then spent the rest of the time putting seeds into the beds. Some of the seeds need to only have one row in each bed like the cabbage. Other crops could have two rows of crops in each bed. This day we placed in the peas, beets, carrots, radish, turnips, spinach, lettuce and cabbage.

While we did this we all had a lot of fun talking. Usually the topics led to what delicious things we knew how to make from all the veggies we were planting that day. That defiantly made me excited about getting my own garden planted. Through out the day we also talked a lot about many of the things we learned in the chapter about food and agriculture. We discussed knowing where out food comes from before we eat just anything. Also, increasing our vegetable consumption and reducing our meat consumption was a topic of interest among us.