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Update: December 11, 2008    Please Report >>
After You Plant Your Garden
Welcome to the 2008 Journey North Tulip Garden Study!

Photo credit:Morgan Greenawalt
Who's Planting this Month? Find out more >>
News: Gardeners Digging In

There has been a flurry of planting since our last update! So far our maps show over 130 more gardens for a total of 358 planted for this big experiment. Students around the globe are planting the bulb that will mark the arrival of spring in their local area.

*If you plan to plant in January 2009 report your Tulips PLANTED now – just report the planting date as January 1, 2009.

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This Week's Map Questions (Handout) >>
Explore: You are a Citizen Scientist

The Journey North tulip garden study is a citizen science project. The study is undertaken by you, the citizen scientist. You contribute to a big scientific study using tulips as tools for watching spring unfold.

Over time patterns can emerge from the careful records you keep at your garden site. Scientists interested in studying the climate can benefit from the information reported to Journey North from gardeners across North America.

  • Learn more about your role as a citizen scientist >>
Slideshow >>
Gardeners in Warm Climate Zones

It's Winter in the Refrigerator!
Gardeners living in warm planting zones are keeping their tulip bulbs in the refrigerator until 2009!

Why keep them in the refrigerator? The bulbs are going through an artificial cold winter season. Tulips need cold temperatures for a few weeks before they will begin to grow healthy leaves and flowers. The refrigerator provides the temperatures to give them that cold "winter" rest.

Do not disturb! Bulbs spending their "winter" in the frige will soon be planted.
Credit: K Rose Advisory Class
Explore: What's Happening Underground?
Your bulbs are settled seven inches underground, the temperature outside (on most parts of the continent) is dropping, and we're in the darkest time of year. What's going on under the surface?

Explore!
Gather some materials and go outside to explore air and soil temperatures this winter! Act now if you are in a cold winter area where your soil freezes in December. You’ll be ready to track temperatures as you track the coming of spring across the continent.

  • Lesson (and teacher background) >>

Click and print this data sheet. >>
Related Journey North Lessons and Links
  • Share: NEW Gardening Stories from This Fall >>
  • Experiment: What's Happening Underground: Taking the Soil's Temperature >>
  • Global Gardening Partners: How do we Compare? >>
  • Experiment: Take-home Tulip Garden: Repeating the Experiment >>
  • Experiment: Annual Microclimate Challenge: An experimental garden challenge >>
  • Map: Using Journey North maps >>
  • Journal: Fall Journey North Tulip Garden Journal (Click and Print) >>
  • Explore: Fall Lessons and Activities >>

Photo credit: Morgan Greenawalt
A tulip garden map provides a record for kindergarten bulb plantings >>
More Journey North Lessons and Teaching Ideas!

The Next Tulip Garden Update Will Be Posted on January 8, 2009.


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