School Garden

Our school garden is ready for summer. We hope it will be a sunny and warm summer - and not too much rain!

Doll houses

The 3rd and 4th grade students made small doll houses for Easter. There is a green garden in every doll house yard! Last year we made small doll houses for birds, remember THESE?

Spring of the School Garden

Our school garden is waiting for the warm summer. We still have frost at nights, around -4 degrees. So we can´t plant any vegetables or other plants yet. Our summer holiday is long, almost two and half months (1st June to 6th August). That is the reason why we can´t make greenhouse in our school garden. We always seed some plants in spring time and let them grow in our warm and sunny school lobby which is our "inside greenhouse". In the end of May we take good care of our school garden: empty the organic waste dump, seed some summer flowers, cut the apple trees if it´s necessary.

 Here are some photos from our garbage collection. Let´s take a good care of our environment!

Planting Green!

We planted seeds for spring!

One of our tasks was to save our Christmas tree's roots and replat it outside. Because we have frost (the ground is also frozen) we can't plant anything for a while. Instead we can use wood for heating or we can compost it. Wood is a renewable natural resource in Finland. We have approximately 26 million hectares of forest and we try to take good care of it. On spring we plant small birches (photo). In time they will grow into a new forest. We have also planted some apple trees, cherry trees, pear trees and plum trees to our school garden.