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"Forcing" Bulbs for Indoor Bloom   click here to see photo
By meeting certain conditions, you can get bulbs to flower out of season for indoor enjoyment. Two types of bulbs are especially easy to "force" -- amaryllis and paperwhite narcissus.

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"Forcing" Twigs for Indoor Bloom
All spring flowering trees and shrubs can be forced into bloom after they have completed their winter dormancy requirement.

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Children's Garden Teen Consultants   click here to see photo
A learning program designed to have teens help younger children build a garden.

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Cooking with The Three Sisters   click here to see photo
Cookbook with "the three sisters" (corn, bean, and squash) in their garden requested recipes to try.

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Creating Music From the Earth
Explores use of natural products as musical instruments and noisemakers. Youth experiment with sounds and learn importance of different instruments working together to create music.

5 - 10
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Drying Flowers   click here to see photo
Outlined here is one of the many methods of drying and preserving flowers: air-drying. Using this technique, many different materials can be selected to give a rich array of effects.

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Ecogardening Fact Sheets
A list of freely available information sheets that help in gardening, especially in the climate of NYS.

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Fresh Flower Arrangements   click here to see photo
Handling and arranging fresh flowers is one of the easiest, most pleasant ways to bring the outdoors in!

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Fun With Natural Plant Dyes   click here to see photo
Illustrates how the science of dyeing has evolved through history. Includes experiments with natural dyeing, dyeing with heat, and dyeing with heat and a mordant.

5 - 8
free

Greener Voices
Project aimed at getting children involved with gardening at a deep level.

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Horizontal hydroponic unit plans   click here to see photo
How to build a horizontal hydroponic unit.

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Horticulture Study Guide for Youth
A website to learn all sorts of facts about plants that helps by matching the type of plant with its image.

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