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Session 3: Gardening Basics

This webinar provides garden skills for educators to feel confident teaching in the school garden. This is not a master gardener discussion. Instead, this webinar focuses on tips and tricks specific to school garden spaces.

Resources for this webinar recording can be viewed by following the steps below:

  1. Create a free Schoology account;
  2. Add the course using the menu in the upper left-hand corner;
  3. Use the Access Code SC64-MJKW-9SFBC to add the Summer Institute Course;
  4. Click on the folder labeled Live Webinars and Recordings; and
  5. Select a webinar to watch.

Having issues accessing the Schoology website? Review this video that walks you through the process.

Outline with timestamps:

  • Introduction 0:00
  • Start with your soil 5:30
  • Composting 28:30
  • Creating a planting plan 34:28
  • Top 10 plants to grow in a school garden 47:00
  • Garden maintenance 1:06:00
  • Weeding 1:06:00
  • Watering 1:19:00
  • Pest Control 1:24:35

Presenters:

  • Xavier Bure Quijano, Washington Youth Garden;
  • Nadia Mercer, Washington Youth Garden;
  • Allie Arnold, Washington Youth Garden; and
  • Emilia Kawashima, Washington Youth Garden.

Related Content: Summer Institute for Garden Based Teaching

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