planting mania

After the success of the daffodils, me and M. decided to have a little flowers corner in the communal green area, which kept on expanding and so far we have put down 4 variety of flowers and around 30-35 bulbs! The experience of growing flowers made us so excited that we moved to sowing vegetables and herbs: tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, spinach and basil.
Every morning M. goes to have a look to all these pots and she calls me so enthusiastically to come and see a new leave, or something new from the ground. She is also in charge of watering all of them.
She is doing so much learning about the environment she is part of. It is good thing children learn a bit about gardening and growing plants, because this gives them a sense of pride and responsability,more over it instills in them respect for the environment and all living things. She also learns about the life cycle of flowers and plants, where vegetable comes from, what they need to grow and all other related things.
I would like to now plant some strawberries because she will be able to eat the fruit of her work!



Relating to sowing and planting is the little project started this late autumn by planting the daffodils bulbs. we follow their growth throughtout the winter, from small leaves coming out from the ground, to blossoms and then beautiful flowers. For all these transformation I took a picture, to build the life cycle of a flower in photos. the last one was of the daffodils withering.
Now we have the all life cycle and M. can look at it and remembering all the growing the daffodils went through, she can also try and order all the phases from bulb to withering.