Are your children overjoyed to learn about soil? Probably not. But, oh, I bet they will be when you introduce these unique activities! Eli and I have had so much fun playing in the dirt AND doing some pretty cool chemistry experiments.
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It’s Fun To Learn About Soil
If you’ve ever dug around in the dirt, you’ve probably seen little critters or bits and pieces of roots and rocks. While those things are certainly wonderful to find, observe, and study, there are so many other cool things you can’t see! That’s what Eli and I have been discovering the past couple of weeks.
It all started when we planted a summer vegetable garden that turned out to be a dud for the third year in a row. We know from years of experience with gardening that those wonderful veggies take a lot of nutrients from the soil as they grow. Since we’ve gardened in the same spot for several years, we deduced that the soil in our garden is probably depleted of some nutrients, but which ones?
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