Mrs. McDonald's 1st Grade Class Made Cucumber Rainbows in the Garden

Mrs. McDonald's class learned the trick to growing lettuces all summer long. With a little help from its friend cucumber, lettuces can grow under the shade of the cucumber plant when you make a rainbow shaped support with chicken wire for the cucumber plant to trellis onto. The students planted cucumber plants and cucumber seeds, this way there are cucumbers all summer long and not all at once. They planted the small lettuce seeds with an easy seed sower (pictured above). They also planted seeds of melons in the bed directly behind the cucumber/lettuce bed. They sprinkled nasturtium flower seeds along the edges of the two beds. Nasturtiums have been shown to repel ground beetles and squash bugs, the flowers also act as a living mulch to keep down weeds.