Saturday, July 16th

Tomato plants (little puny, but hopefully will come around if we keep them watered)


Carrots


Cucumbers and green peppers





New flowers (in the prior pea bed) and radish row in the bottom right corner



Caden's corner with some new flowers


New flowers

Lettuce and green beans


I went to Jung's this morning and bought some of their discounted annuals with my Jung's dollars. Nothing looked very good, but hopefully with some TLC these flowers will go crazy and look beautiful for the festival. :) (Can't hurt to hope.)

You may have noticed that we have many potted plants in the garden. One of our former students started all these plants on his apartment patio and ran out of room. He asked both Fr. Schmitt and I if he could add them into our garden. Please don't weed anything in these pots. Thank you!

PLEASE feel free to stop in and snip some lettuce (plenty!), and pull some green beans and carrots. Between Diane Neal and her son, Payton, and I we reseeded more spinach, beets and radishes. There will be plenty of cucumbers and tomatoes soon! :)

Been a month....

A huge thanks goes out to those of you who have kept the garden weeded and watered. I drove by tonight (couldn't wait until tomorrow to see it). I added a second level to the cucumber "ladder". As I wandered around I found that all of the spinach had gone to seed and the radishes where the size of beets. The peas are well past harvest, too. I pulled all the radishes and spinach plants and I will harvest all the peas and take them all out of their pods. I hope to get those put in the freezer for the cafeteria to use in the fall. The carrots are looking great.

Thanks again to all those who kept an eye on the garden! :) Kim

ps. Pictures to come...

Lots of radishes! :)

Hello! Hope that this heat hasn't caused anyone to be sick. It is amazing how quickly the weather went from cold to literally boiling...

Above is the diagram of the garden. Thanks go out to our volunteer families! :)

Garden update June 3, 2011

Lots and lots of radishes!!!! (They are kind of buried in the bucket.) There is also lettuce and spinach. :)
The chives are adding some pretty purple color to the very GREEN garden. I didn't have a chance to take any other pictures, but there will be more soon!

3rd grade visits the garden (5.19.20)

Some students looking at Caden's corner. It had the most beautiful tulips bloom. I look forward to seeing the marigolds come up there, too.


Many students helped pick up the millions of rocks that were stirred up to the top when it was rototilled last. One student was so proud, he picked up 50+ rocks! Awesome work, Austin!


Do you see our first bean plant. I am so excited to see some of these coming up. I know that it sounds weird, but the fact that we can grow veggies from seeds just continues to amaze me! :)


Pulling weeds! Very successful job!


Thinning out the radish plants. They really did a great job and didn't go too crazy! :)


Checking out our up and coming pea plants. They were so careful to not step on the little plants!


There are some of our pea plants. We are way behind where we were last year, but the weather has not cooperated very well this season.


More thinning out of radishes.

It was perfect weather and they were wonderful workers! :)

Garden planting continues!

The 4th graders and I went out right after lunch on this beautiful day! This was THE BEST class I have EVER had with this group!!!! They were awesome! Some planted carrots, some planted radishes and others planted cucumbers. The best part was they also helped me get spots ready for the 1st graders. They dug little troughs and helped mark where the 1st graders would plant.





Beautiful, beautiful tulips!

The 1st graders and I went out for an hour at the end of the school day. It is hard keeping them all focused and happy, but we did it (for the most part). :) They planted green beans and marigolds.

I can't wait to see all of these start coming up!!!! I even got a little sunburned today! :) :) :)

Spring planting began today!

Today the 2nd graders and I went out and planted peas. Below are the students digging little ditches for the first graders that will go out tomorrow and plant. They also picked up rocks that were around. It was fun to get out there and get our hands dirty! :)

Daffodils are showing their stuff...

...or at least some of them are! :) Enjoy the pictures! I cut 4 of them and put them in the faculty room this morning, might cheer up someone on this dreary day!

Spent the morning at the garden! :)

So, I went this morning and actually got dirty! :) Grandpa Besler came and rototilled the ground up and I trimmed the bushes, moved some leaves and put up some stakes.

I have decided that I am just like my mom in many ways and that is OK! :)

Our winter sowing is beginning to show some growth. We have lettuce and spinach sprouts.


Chives

Row of daffodils just ready to burst!


Of course, I had to have a pic of the cute crocus!


This will be our melon and cucumber growing "fence". Not sure if you can tell, but the bottom is an old spring form that goes in a crib. It is awesome and I would love to find another to go on the top, but the likelihood of that is slim to none; so the plan is to put up a short piece of fencing up on top. It worked great last year, we'll see.




I got Caden's corner set back up.

This is what it looks like laid out as of today. May change, not sure. To the right are the pea tripods.

They just keep springing up!!!

Northwest corner... purple and pink crocus!

Do you see the little pink ones in there?!


Southwest corner... yellow crocus!

Southeast corner... little white ones that have just a little purple in them.

Can you see the almost ready to bust open daffodils???

Happy Spring!

WOW!!!!

We have flowers, ladies and gentlemen!!! I am so excited! Looks like some snow might be coming by the end of the week. Not sure if I need to do anything to protect them...

3.18.2011

I sure do get excited to see signs of spring! I went out yesterday to check out the winter sowing progress (which hasn't happened yet) and almost stepped on the tulips shoots! Then I glanced over and saw these sweet little crocus! Love, Love, Love how God makes everything new!

02.21.11

My goodness it has been a long time since I last posted... Not much going on out there with the exception of our compost bin is composing and the settling of the leaves we put over the top of the entire area. I can't wait to see little green sprouts coming from the ground in several weeks, when our bulbs begin to come up.

The 7th and 8th graders winter sowed a ton of seeds today. They planted peas, beans, 2 different kinds of lettuce, cantaloupe, spinach, squash, and carrots. I hope that we see some of those come up, too. Thanks to Polly Reott for helping us with the donation of the seeds to get us started. Thanks to Jay Rotter for the dirt he and his family donated. Finally, thanks to Mr. Dave and his group for rinsing and saving all their juice containers for us to use.

This spring I plan to have a Saturday where we get out there, clean up the place and get some new beds established. It is always good to change things up each year so we will be creating some new beds. I am looking for donations for wood chips and time, when the time comes. Please let me know if you would be available.

Thanks much and happy growing!!! :)