In Cypress, students in first grade learn all about plants and their structures, the life cycle of how they grow into adult plants from seeds, how they help animals and how animals help spread the seeds, etc. When our grandson Carter, who was in first grade last year at Landell Elementary School, brought home a variety of seeds from his class, we decided to plant them in our garden at home.
The seeds he had brought from school included corn, sunflower, and pumpkin. Knowing that Landell has a wonderful garden area, I asked the school district if my wife, Lynn, and I could work outside in the garden area during the summer and plant corn, sunflower, and pumpkin.
By using the summer as a great growing period, we thought it would be nice for the students to see when they returned to school on August 19. One picture is from June 12 when we planted
Courtesy photo
the seeds and the other two pictures are just two months later on August 12. One of the sunflowers we planted at home has already been harvested and has produced well over one thousand sunflower seeds from the one plant. We will be harvesting the Landell garden over the next couple of months.
