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!