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How to ripen and store your homegrown tomatoes
So, frost came a little early and your tomatoes are still green?! Don’t fret, you can give your tomatoes a little help to ripen off the vine! First, a bit of information about what affects ripening. Ideally, it’s best to ripen tomatoes on the vine. The optimal...
Homegrown Tomatoes – A Song by Guy Clark
To celebrate growing tomatoes, here's our favourite tomato song written and performed by Guy Clark. To quote: "Only two things that money can't buy and that's true love and homegrown tomatoes." Little Green Thumbs students might like listening to the song, or singing...
Why are the leaves curling on our class tomato plant?
This is called physiological leaf roll! Fortunately, leaf roll doesn’t affect the growth of the tomato or the fruit. It’s not caused by an insect or disease but by environmental factors* Environmental factors are anything that causes stress to the plant such as not...
Notice for Little Green Thumbs Teachers
Hi Little Green Thumbs teachers, Due to the recent class cancellations as a response to COVID-19, we want to provide some information regarding the care of your gardens and vermicomposting bins during extended absence, as well as information regarding available...
Build Your Classroom Worm Home
Vermicomposting is easy, fun, good for the earth and presents countless learning opportunities. Use this guide to create your classroom worm habitat - AKA a worm bin! What is a Worm Bin? A worm bin serves to contain the entire vermicomposting operation...
Pen Pals 2019-2020
We invite our Gr. 1 to Gr. 4 Little Green Thumbs classrooms to take part in Little Green Pen Pals, which engages students in cultural exchange, inquiry-based learning and literacy, as well as opportunities to build friendships across Canada! What is Little...
Quick and Easy Hand Salads Recipes!
Hand Salads (aka Lettuce Boats or Lettuce Tacos) are quick, easy and tasty treats that your students and kids can build themselves from fresh garden ingredients. The important thing to remember when making hand salads is to use a large and fairly moldable lettuce....
Social and emotional wellbeing: Gardens can Help!
Social & Emotional Well-being: Gardens can Help!Grow Resilient Children with a Classroom Garden Resilience (or resiliency) is our ability to adapt and bounce back when things don't go as planned – an important for children (and adults). Resilience enables us to...
Seed Starting Made Easy!
Connect Your Garden to AgricultureOnce you've decided what to grow, it's time to plant! We love starting seeds in the classroom (and at home) using pellets - either made of compressed peat or coir. Though this method is not necessary, we find that it creates...