Acorn Blitz for Seeds and Seedlings

It's time for an Acorn Blitz!! While planting seeds and watching them grow, let's grow the plants database a little this spring at the same time!

Weeds: Lambquarter

Lambsquarters (Chenopodium album) is a fast-growing summer annual.

Your Guide to Salvias

Salvias are a large group of garden plants that includes annuals, biennials, perennials, and shrubs. The perennial salvias are mainstays of the midsummer garden border. Another common name is sage.

Growing Bleeding Heart (Dicentra)

Bleeding heart has attractive mounded foliage with arching stems of delicate, heart-shaped flowers in spring. It thrives in moist woodland gardens along with ferns and other shade-lovers.

Care Guide: Irises

Irises are grown throughout the world. Perhaps the most commonly recognized is the bearded iris with thousands of registered cultivars. But there are many other types of irises, too, as you will see in this database

Care and Harvest of Strawberries

You won't be idle until your first harvest. You must not let the new plants set berries in their first year. They will try to fruit, but you must pick off the blossoms as they appear. This way, instead of fruiting, the mother plants will produce vigorous daughters that will yield well the following year.

Growing Basil

Featured in cuisines across the globe, basil is an indispensable flavoring. Plant seeds or transplants after all danger of frost has passed and soil is warm, and it will yield an abundant harvest within weeks.

Weeds: Chickweed

Chickweed (Stellaria media) is a widespread, hardy annual often found in moist, fertile garden soil. In mild winter climates it begins blooming before winter ends. Edible but not very tasty, chickweed plants form dense 3-inch-tall mats of foliage studded with starry white flowers.

Activity: Find Leaf Types

Here's a fun activity for your children this weekend. Download and print out this PDF of different leaf types and see how many examples your children can find.

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