How to make a Vegetable Garden on your school backyard

1. VEGETABLE GARDEN
HOW TO MAKE IT???
EB1/JI de VILA NOVA DA BARONIA

2. Step 1: Space to do it
choose where to make the garden and what
to sow (kind of seeds, plants).
Prefer a location with: enough solar lighting,
the soil in good conditions.
The choice of what to do is essential to begin
planting our garden.
There are many vegetables with seeds
available for sale in small packages.

3. We must pay attention to the space available
in the garden; difficulty of cultivation /
maintenance of plant and season in which
cultivates.
Step 2: Prepare the ground.
On this step the garden's
worker help or students'
parents is essential for the
efficient clearing of the land.

5. Remove all the
big stones!!!

6. Step 3:
After we prepare the
ground, then begin to sow
the seeds in small holes or
furrows.
Don’t forget the labels with
the vegetabels name!

7. Step 4: The plantation seeds
Here we put pumkins’ seeds
no more than two in ich hol
then we cover the holes with
soil, the seeds must remain well
hidden.
(No more than 1cm of soil over
the seeds.)

8. With lettuce and cabbages process is different, now you don't sow. YouWith lettuce and cabbages process is different, now you don't sow. You
are planting, when they are very tiny.are planting, when they are very tiny.
Attention! When planting we have to be very careful with the root,Attention! When planting we have to be very careful with the root,
which is verywhich is very fragile..
LETTUCES
SPROUTS

9. Water it’s essencial !
Step 5:

10. Step 5: Clean the weeds
The work never stops!
You should clean the weeds and
watering plants.
Now, let's hope they grow, to have
good products!

12. If some plant born out of place you can pick it and remove to
the correct place

15. Step 6: Time of harvest.
Taste and feel how it’s so
good!

16. Very well!

17. To feed the plants in the
ground, you can use all organic
waste from your kitchen:
banana peels, egg, fruit and
vegetables, dried leaves,
leftover coffee and tea, weeds
which you removes of crops,
etc.
Another, good advice

18. Once a month, you must turn i up,
down… (the garden's worker it’s a
good help!)

19. Earthworms can be placed inside the
composter to have a good humus.
After six months, it is ready to use in
soil!

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