Here is our plan for a Pizza Garden--loaded with veggies and fun for the kids. The missing slice makes it easier to reach and tend to the other "slices." The simple raised bed will be made of stacked stones.
This project is for next year so the students can participate in the actual fun of helping seed and plant the "ingredients." If you're interested in this idea, you can make your own pizza garden at home--an elaborate one with all the fixings or a small one in a planter.
A tomato planted in the center of a pot, anchored by three stakes or a tomato cage, will look beautiful by summer's end with various basils ("Purple Ruffles," "Variegated"...) trailing over the edge. Planting basil in the same pot as tomatoes has the added anecdotal benefit of keeping certain bad bugs away.
If you don't want to plant a tomato, you can still plant onions or scallions or pineapple sage in with your basil and let the kids pick these specifically for pizza.
At our house, we've discovered that if the Mini--"I DO NOT EAT VEGETABLES"--Humans have a hand in growing the produce, they're not only willing, but excited to eat said produce. We hope the same proves true with our pizza garden at school.
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