5/12/15-5/23/2015

We've been very busy getting everything prepped and planted. The gardens are all sprouting. We had a workday on Saturday and painted pots, cleaned out the rain barrel and planted strawberries and tomatoes.
The first milkweed plant we had was nibbled down to the bone. A wonderful Master Gardener let us take a few plants from Lowe Park. Hopefully that should satisfy their appetite for a little while!

5/5/15

We have had a lot of rain in our garden and it was too wet to plant much today but we did manage to sow beets, radishes and sunflowers. When we turned the soil we found it teeming with life. We also made plant markers.

4/28/15

This week we measured the bed to add our grids and planted some broccoli, beans, beets and milkweed!!! Milkweed is the only plant Monarchs will feed and lay eggs on and there is a short supply. By planting milkweed we are helping to restore habitat. On May 30th Indian Creek Nature Reserve will have a Monarchs and milkweed lesson where you can make milkweed seed bombs. For more information, go here http://www.indiancreeknaturecenter.org/store/family-activities/monarchs-and-milkweed-seed-bombs-saturday-may-30-1000-am-noon/

4/25/15

Well rain was scheduled for our cold crop workday, but it was important to get the beds down and so we went on with the show. Students showed up and worked tirelessly moving compost and amending the beds so that seeds could be sown when the soil is dry enough. They were such troopers!

4/21/15

Our garden club t-shirts arrived just before Earth Day and students were pretty proud sporting their new colors!

4/14/15

This week we continued working on the cleaning up the beds in anticipation of our April 25th cold crop workday.

4/7/15

This week students tapped into their creative sides and began painting the wood that will make up some of the 4x4 raised beds.

3/31/2015

This week Mrs Scheuerman explained the Tower Garden to the students. She showed us the pump, we tested the pH, filled up the garden and put our transplants into six holes (we will not be using the whole thing as we only want to rely on natural light and will not be purchasing the fluorescent lights that come with the tower). Students also took seeds home to transplant into the garden this Spring!

Our Spring workday for cold crops is April 25th. All students, staff and families are welcome to attend but please respond via email with how many in your party will be attending. We will also have a little garden tour during Carnival and we will be transplanting warm crops on the 23rd May.

03/17/15

On St. Patrick's Day, it was warm enough to head out into our existing bed and start cleaning up in anticipation for our April 25th cold crop workday. Students picked up leaves, removed some of the mulch from last year we used as walkways and had fun being outside again in the garden for the first time in a long while at garden club. We found our soil teaming with life and named some of the worms we found!