Our Dirty Rascals got dirty again this month at their monthly club meeting. You may remember in March the club members (with a little tiny bit of help from the volunteers) put together a raised bed garden. This month they transplanted the plants that they started in the Aero gardens to the raised bed.
We pulled out the original plan and marked off the area for the various plants. After quickly weeding the new bed (bad Bermuda grass trying to get in the garden!) it was time to dig in and plant our beautiful seedlings. Thanks to Mack Johnson, Horticulture Agent with the Robeson County Cooperative Extension Center the youth learned how to plant the seedlings, how to trim roots, and how to handle the plants so they could ensure the best possible outcome for vegetable production. The members planted popcorn, sweet peppers and green peppers, two types of tomatoes, and cucumbers. To finish it off and have a little something they can harvest soon, handfuls of radish seeds went in between the seedlings and we will see what they do.
The Dirty Rascals Junior Master Gardeners will meet again in May. To learn more about this club please contact Wendy Maynor, 4-H Program Assistant at
(910) 671-3276 or Wendy_Maynor@ncsu.edu.
We pulled out the original plan and marked off the area for the various plants. After quickly weeding the new bed (bad Bermuda grass trying to get in the garden!) it was time to dig in and plant our beautiful seedlings. Thanks to Mack Johnson, Horticulture Agent with the Robeson County Cooperative Extension Center the youth learned how to plant the seedlings, how to trim roots, and how to handle the plants so they could ensure the best possible outcome for vegetable production. The members planted popcorn, sweet peppers and green peppers, two types of tomatoes, and cucumbers. To finish it off and have a little something they can harvest soon, handfuls of radish seeds went in between the seedlings and we will see what they do. 
The Dirty Rascals Junior Master Gardeners will meet again in May. To learn more about this club please contact Wendy Maynor, 4-H Program Assistant at (910) 671-3276 or Wendy_Maynor@ncsu.edu.
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