Cultivating Kids
April 18, 2008 by gardenlady
When I was in the 5th grade in Muncie, Indiana, we had a television in the classroom. This was a big deal back then…a pilot program. There were educational programs broadcast from a plane - early satellite television I guess. In any case, the program that I remember 45 years later is one that showed how to take a cutting of a geranium. You could grow more plants from a stem! I was impressed. Later that year we had to pick a science fair project, and I decided to do something with plants - I grew beans and covered each pot with a different color film to see if the color made a difference in how the plants grew.
What I wonder now is how much the geranium cutting program influenced my choice of science fair project, and how much these activities contributed to my love of plants today.
When you expose kids to information about plants and gardening, you never know what seeds you are planting. What are you doing to create future gardeners?
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