Mrs. Bazan's second-grade class harvested a bumper crop of mixed lettuces, spinach and radishes. With kid scissors, they snipped bunches of leaves, being careful not to pull out the roots, so that the plants could grow more leaves for another day's snack.
The kids also pulled every radish with a juicy red, pink or white root bulging out of the soil. The rest they left for another day.
Vesna Kovach, mother of Mrs. Bazan's student Ulysses and a longtime garden volunteer, led the effort. The kids carried the harvest back to their classroom, where they all took turns helping Vesna wash and spin the lettuce and spinach. Kids also twisted free the radishes from their bitter leaves -- which went into the compost -- and carefully washed them.
Each student piled his or her plate high with lettuces and spinach, and a few opted for a radish, too. As luck would have it, today was healthy snack day, and crisp cucumbers added to the green feast.
The students picked enough greens for four additional classrooms -- the rest of the second grade, and two more classrooms besides. Mrs. Bazan and Vesna distributed the leafy treasure to the other classrooms.
One teacher, Miss Thousand, noted that the lettuces were sweeter than that tasted at the second-grade field trip to Troy Gardens just the day before. The farmers there said the lettuce was on the bitter side because the weather had been so dry lately.
The conclusion is that 4G gardeners are keeping the lettuce happy with sufficiently frequent watering!
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