Green Team gardeners each brought in one potato from home to plant in one of our newest garden beds. Parent Zivile Kudzin let the One Potato Per Child planting, which took place after the kids got back from the school-wide excursion to Warner Park for the annual Youth Service Day tree planting and Earth Day park clean-up.
Zivile also brought in some purple seed potatoes. Parent Vesna Kovach sent in some Russian Banana Finger potatoes and some strawberry plants from her home garden.
In addition to the potato bed, the children planted the new strawberry bed, a mix of the established strawberry plants and several rootlings purchased at Jung's garden store.
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Garden planted!
Forget about the freezing nights! Warm weather is coming sooner or
later, and it's time to plant spring crops at the Lake View Elementary
School 4G: the Great Green Growing Garden!
Parents Zivile Kudzin, Melissa Mooney and Vesna Kovach came to work with the students of the Green Garden Team.
We planted peas, spinach, purple and pink radishes and lettuces as our early spring crop.
Nhabee Her, on the Lake View faculty, is leading the very first 4G Jicama Project. He's been growing and enjoying jicama for several years and is sharing his expertise with the school. Jicama is a favorite vegetable in the cuisines of South Asia.
We built dogwood trellises for the peas. Wendy Gasch brought the lovely dogwood branches from a project she worked on earlier this month. She also donated a sack of organic fertilizer.
The kids worked hard putting down landscape fabric and, over that, wood chips to make an attractive space around and between the raised beds. They literally moved a mountain during this workday: a mountain of wood chips that the school district delivered a few days ago, all the way from the parking lot to its garden destination, one wheelbarrow full at a time. A lot of good, hard work!
Parents Zivile Kudzin, Melissa Mooney and Vesna Kovach came to work with the students of the Green Garden Team.
We planted peas, spinach, purple and pink radishes and lettuces as our early spring crop.
Nhabee Her, on the Lake View faculty, is leading the very first 4G Jicama Project. He's been growing and enjoying jicama for several years and is sharing his expertise with the school. Jicama is a favorite vegetable in the cuisines of South Asia.
We built dogwood trellises for the peas. Wendy Gasch brought the lovely dogwood branches from a project she worked on earlier this month. She also donated a sack of organic fertilizer.
The kids worked hard putting down landscape fabric and, over that, wood chips to make an attractive space around and between the raised beds. They literally moved a mountain during this workday: a mountain of wood chips that the school district delivered a few days ago, all the way from the parking lot to its garden destination, one wheelbarrow full at a time. A lot of good, hard work!
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