Hey Kids,
I hope you had a chance to come out and plant some potatoes last week! In this cold weather, it feels just great to be playing in the soil!
AND, later this season you'll be able to enjoy lots of delicious potatoes for dinner!
Over the next few weeks Canadale Kid's Club will be running a series of planting crafts that focuses on how to grow food...in your very own back yard, front yard or porch! Technically, if you came to every craft in the series, by the end, you could be growing your very own FULL VEGGIE GARDEN! Some of the food you'll learn about growing are:
*Potatoes (check!)
*Salad bowl vegetables
*Beans - green, yellow & purple
*Herbal Tea plants
*Tomatoes
*Flowers - just because every garden needs some
*Vines- pumpkins, squash or watermelon
Watch our newsletters weekly to hear about the activity every weekend.
Growing a Salad Bowl This weekend at Kid's Club you can plant your very salad bowl. Learn how easy it is to grow different kinds of lettuce, how to care for them and how to harvest them! You can bring home your new lettuce (we'll be planting a few different kinds of ORGANIC lettuce in your bowl!) bowl planter in a bio-degradable pot to watch it grow inside until it's warm enough to plant out in the garden. Then just dig a hole and drop in the pot and all. The pot will break down and become compost!
Kid's Club runs Saturday & Sunday this weekend from 10am - 4pm.
Important Things to Know About Growing Lettuce 1. Lettuce is considered a cold weather vegetable. This means it prefers the cooler weather to grow. That's great news for us now, since it's so cool out! You can put your lettuce bowls out during the day right away! Just remember to bring them in for those chilly nights - lettuce still doesn't like frost. 2. Lettuce likes cooler weather, so in the summer months when it's really hot, make sure your lettuce is in a bit of a shadier spot. A great tip I like to use is to plant my lettuce in my garden beside a tomato plant. By the summer when the tomato is growing big, it will provide some shade to the lettuce beside it! 3. Lettuce likes moist rich soil, but it doesn't like to be wet. Water your lettuce in the morning (before noon). Avoid watering at night to prevent disease. 4. Just like we think lettuce is delicious, so do slugs and snails! To keep these pesky pests from eating your lettuce try crushing some egg shells up and placing them around the base of your lettuce. This should help deter slugs and snails. 5. Harvesting lettuce is very easy! Especially the particular types of lettuce you'll be planting! You can harvest leaf lettuce right away by simply removing the outer leaves (so that the centre leaves can continue to grow). Continue to harvest outer leaves as the season goes on...and enjoy!
Some Lettuce Fun for you...
Q: What did the vegetables say at the garden party?
A: Lettuce Turnip the Beet.
Q: What did the lettuce say to the celery?
A: Quit stalking me.
Q: What did the bacon say to the tomato?
A: Lettuce get together.
Q: Why did the tomato blush?
A: Because he saw the salad dressing.
Knock Knock
Who's there?
Lettuce
Lettuce who?
Lettuce in and you'll see!
Q: What did the salad say to the dressing?
A: Lettuce be friends.
Happy Gardening! Kate Intven-Holt and the Canadale team | 
