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= Students Learning Through Urban Gardening (SLUG) =  //Welcome to SLUG's home on the web!//


 * [[image:Bnan_logo.png width="160" height="135"]] || [[image:IMG_1334.jpg]] || The SLUG program guides teachers and students step-by-step through "planting to harvesting" growing and short-duration garden-related activities during the Boston Public School System season.

SLUG provides support and materials for the following areas:
 * INDOOR GROWING (under grow lights)
 * INDOOR COMPOSTING (worm bins)
 * OUTDOOR GROWING (warm and cold weather)
 * OUTDOOR COMPOSTING (bins)

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=Focus on: OUTDOOR GROWING = jfdlkjnkl;j ||  Germination in the Cold DIT  ||  Thinning Seedlings EDIT || Hardening Off Plants || @Common Pests EDIT || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Getting Ready for Summer EDIT ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">**Weeks 1-2** || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;"> **Weeks 3-4** || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;"> **Weeks 5-6** || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;"> **Weeks 9-10** || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;"> **Weeks 13-14** || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;"> **Weeks 15-16** ||
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 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">When to Plant

**<span style="color: #2f7144; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em;">Focus on: OUTDOOR COMPOSTING **
<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Composting is easy! Once you have your bin set up, follow these simple steps to make compost: <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">//(Courtesy of [|The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection])//
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">**Add** high carbon materials ("browns"), such as fall leaves, straw, salt marsh hay, shredded paper and cardboard (newspaper, paper towels, paper plates, paper bags), chipped brush, sawdust, pine needles (pine needles should not make up more than 10% of the total material in the pile).
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">**Add** high nitrogen materials ("greens"), such as grass clippings, weeds (not laden with seeds), vegetable and fruit wastes, seaweed, eggshells, coffee grounds and filters, tea bags, manure (horse, cow, rabbit, chicken, goat, gerbil, etc).
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">**Mix or layer** materials: Every 12" or so add a few shovelsful of rich soil or compost.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">**Keep it damp and turn** with a shovel or pitchfork to keep it aerated. Wait a few months, and voila—black gold! <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">NOTE: For best results, and to keep out odors and pests, do not add: meat, bones, fat grease, oils, peanut butter, dairy products (cheese, butter, milk, eggs), cooked foods with sauces or butter, dog or cat manure, diseased plants, weeds gone to seed, or weeds that spread by roots and runners (vines).