Oh Happy Day! (#2)

Oh Happy Day!!!!

Oh Happy Day!  Can you hear me singing?  The 1st graders were blessed by having two parents come in and help me in the garden today.  Wendy Gasch and Candice Hodges-Palmer.  It was a great time.  Lots of muddy, smiley kiddos!  Here are some kids planting potatoes.  Thank you, Candice for taking the pictures!  :)  Sorry I didn't get a picture of every student!

8th graders to the rescue!

I was so happy today when some of the 8th grade girls offered to skip GYM and help me with the 2nd graders in the garden.  It was clear they had done this before (yes, they remembered from planting previous years &/or in their home gardens).  I was so thankful!  I know that the 2nd graders loved having their help as well!

Below are two pictures:  The first one is some of the kids planting marigolds.  The second picture is a picture of "Caden's Corner".  His big sister, Kara (8th grader), helped the 2nd graders plant purple pansies in "his" corner.

Picture #2

Picture showing the whole garden...

We are alive and well!

Hey everyone!  I am so sorry that I have not updated this in so long.  Over the weekend, former student Brad Stram (and his family) built raised beds for the garden.  This was his Eagle Scout project.  I can hardly wait to get my fingers in the dirt!  :)  I hope to keep pictures more up-to-date, but don't hold me to it!  Take care, Kim

June 18, 2012

I am so embarrassed to even post here.  It has been almost a whole year.  Here is just a very short run-down on what's up...

5th grade "took" over the garden this year.  I was very impressed with their dedication!!!  I will try and get some of their pics up some time.  They have kept a notebook with lots of info.  Feel free to stop in the storage bucket and check it all out.

Family calendar dates:
Stram Family: June 24-July 1
Rozwadowski Family: July 1-July 8
Pritchard / Rotter Families: July 8-July 15
Reott Family: July 15-July 22
Bauer Family: July 22-July 29
Elder Family: July 29-Aug 5
Masters Family: Aug 5-Aug 12
Murphy Family: periodically stopping through the summer evenings

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.