If you've been by the garden today, you may have noticed a GIANT pile of dirt by the front gate. More accurately, it's a pile of sandy loam that will be wonderful in the garden when mixed with the existing dirt and some compost or other organic material, such as bagged potting soil.
If you're interested in some dirty fun, come on down and help move it to the garden patches. The areas where the grass has been turned over or removed all need to be covered with several inches of the new dirt. The kid can fill buckets to carry, or bring your wagon!
And, learn some more about dirt! You may not realize that the study of soils is a science all its own, and that there is a big difference between various types of material, depending on the composition. In fact, dirt and soil are not even the same thing, even though we use the words interchangeably. Click here to learn some more about soil science.
For some fun related information and activities, click here for the dirt on soil from Discovery Kids.
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