Gardening Tips & Tricks - Seed St. Louis

End of Season School Garden Wrap-Up

That’s a wrap for the fall semester of our Seed to STEM Sequence! Two 4th-grade classes at Mann Elementary practiced making careful observations of their school garden ecosystem, categorizing abiotic and biotic factors, experiencing ecosystem interactions and energy flow in real time, and even engineering changes in their garden ecosystem. Along the way, these students […]

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The Great Perennial Divide

October 7th, 2026 Whether you already have clumping perennials sprinkled throughout your garden that could use a little more space, or you’re on the hunt for new perennial pollinators to introduce to your garden, now is a great time to host a Perennial Plant Swap! Consider hosting a fall perennial swap at your school garden […]

Harvesting & Curing Sweet Potatoes

Believe it or not, the frost-free growing season is quickly coming to an end. If you planted sweet potatoes this year, that means it’s about time to harvest them. Sweet potatoes are from the rainforests of South America, so they have zero tolerance for frost. Keep an eye on the weather and make sure to […]

How to Harvest, And Store, Fall-Ripening Fruit

As we continue into late summer and fall, we are in the prime season for fall-ripening tree fruit like apples, European pear, Asian pear, pawpaw, persimmon, and jujube. The trick is knowing when to harvest and then how to store these fruits. First, when do you harvest them? Look up when the cultivar you are […]

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