A Spring in Your Step and in the Air; Let's Get to Work!

Finally. Spring has arrived here in Maine. Folks are tuning up their bikes, breaking out their barbecues and starting their early seedlings.

The Longfellow Learning Garden may not look like much right now, but just you wait. With what looks like no frosts in the forecast, plans are in full swing to get the garden going for the next growing season.

Karen Koppen's Kindergarten class and Allison Chiodo's pre-K class are beginning to start some early crops, and the rest of the Kindergartners will begin seeding inside during the first weeks of May, then moving their plantings into the greenhouse and then finally transferring them into the garden at the end of the month.

On Sunday, May 5, starting at 9am, all would-be gardeners, birders, planters, green-thumbs, and those who just want to get outside and dig in the dirt, are invited to our Spring Work Day! Treats will be provided to all who contribute--including the children. 

We will be working on the following areas:

• tidying up the composting area, 
• dead heading perennials near the pond and in the habitat area, 
• trimming broken branches on shrubs, trees, and wisteria, 
• cleaning out the stream and pond, 
• putting all the signs in, 
• removing the broken picnic table, 
• buying a new round picnic table (anyone have a truck?), and
• setting up benches.   

There will be more opportunities throughout the Spring and early Summer to help out, but now's the chance to take part in the miracle of growing from the ground up. Remember, the seeds we sow today will yield the flowers we'll smell and the vegetables we'll eat tomorrow!