Join Anne and Mary Jo as they discuss tasks, jobs and things to keep in mind when visiting or working in your school garden during the summer break. Everything from watering, harvesting, creating shade and obsessively referencing home-grown produce during every mealtime!

Time Stamps: 00:42: Intro

01:28: Watering

02:53: Weeding

03:28: Solarizing

05:50: Humidity

06:00: Harvesting

07:13: Putting Beds to Bed!

07:48: Cover Cropping

09:06: What Can We Still Plant in the Summer?

10:40: Pests in the Garden

13:01: Thinking and Planning for the Fall

15:25: Making Shade

17:48: Produce Slow-Down

20:10: Pickle Update!

22:56: Conclusion and Wishing Everyone a Great Summer Break … in the Garden or out.

Pickle Recipes:

Here is the recipe I used for the Dill Pickles. I particularly enjoyed putting in flowering dill heads into my brine as my plant is at this stage - it gave it such a mellow dill flavor.

Here is the recipe I followed for the Bread and Butter Pickles (minus cloves, as I don’t like cloves and I went 1/3 less on the sugar).
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Join Anne and Mary Jo as they take time to reflect on this past school year in the garden. Listen as they discuss what went well, what didn’t, plans for the summer and goals for next year. Plus, throwing some controversial shade at pickleball!

00:42 Introduction - Our Year End Reflections

03:02: What Went Well This Year

12:04: What Didn’t Go So Well

18:00: Our Plans for the Summer Break

22:00: Goals and Ambitions for Next School Year In The Garden

31:38: Concluding Thoughts

Episode Resources

Learn more about the Ridglea Giving Garden here Ridglea Giving Garden

Details for the RHS Flower Show at Wentworth Woodhouse RHS Flower Show Wentworth Woodhouse

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Join Anne and Mary Jo as they share rainy day indoor gardening ideas and activities for those occasions when you have to pivot and move gardening indoors … plus a generous helping of strawberry talk..
00:47 - Hello

01:27 - How Has Your Week Been?

04:53 - Gardening Indoors - Introduction

07:03 - Fruit and Flower Dissection

11:45 - Indoor Seed Activities

14:25 - Kitchen Scrap Science

19:54 - Rainy Day Poetry and Literacy Ideas

24:27 - Earthworms and Earthworm Activities

29:49 - Conclusion

Episode Resources

Find the Flourish Me seed packet PDF at NC State University - Flourish Me - SEL Seed Packet Worksheet

As they share on their website, The “Flourish Me” worksheet allows students to illustrate what conditions allow them to thrive as they grow and develop. Students will recognize that they likely flourish under different conditions than their peers, though we all have minimum needs that must be met.

The Welman Project serve as a free resource for teachers, distributing surplus materials from local companies for creative reuse in the classroom and beyond. Learn more about Fort Worth's creative reuse space at ⁠The Welman Project.⁠

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