Boys & Girls Garden Club Started

This spring the Lynden Boys and Girls Club started their own Garden Club. In between numerous days of rain and down right deluges, 6-21 kids from the club have started planting garden seeds and vegetable transplants.

First they "framed" up four 4X4 lasagna beds in their 10X10 plot. Jeff Littlejohn helped them apply a variety of layers of straw, compost, grass clippings, soil to each bed. They used some boards to pack the organic material. After this the kids got in the box area to pack down the materials ... then the board frames were gently lifted off.

Then the kids began to plant. First of course was radishes...then peas. They also got to plant some spinach, lettuce, chard, etc. In the center of one is a climbing "Scarlet Emperor" bean. Fantastic red flowers!

We also had the kids move compost into a couple of our raised beds, getting ready to offer these to the elderly or disabled.

When asked to help weed the bamboo "People Pocket", I got a unanimous "Yeeahh!" A better attitude than I had when asked to weed as a child. Right-on B&G Kids!

The kids really love to find their garden transforming - growing every week.

Enjoy the pictures below.