Mrs. Dhir, who is a Burnaby science teacher and a ver y active parent volunteer with our school worked with several classes and taught them how to winterize our school garden.   She explained to the students that winterization involved fall planting and that living things needs proper nutrition to thrive. She told them that we can eat our food but plants must absorb most of what they need from the soil (they get carbon from the air as carbon dioxide CO2). Nutrients in soil get washed away every time we water the garden or it rains so we need to make the soil more nutritious again before we plant in the spring. Decomposing plant matter is the best source of nutrition for plants rather than chemical fertilizers. Some plants need to experience cold/freezing temperatures to know to grow so they need to be planted in the fall before the first deep frost. When we plant bulbs we can put some extra nutrition under the bulbs (bonemeal, fertilizer) to help them grow big and strong.  Thanks again Mrs. Dhir the students of division 11 learned a lot from you.