Fall garden cleanup and prep

Parent volunteers and lots of Green Teamers came out to work on the garden. Out with the old, in with the new! We pulled out all the scraggly old tomato plants and still-lush pepper plants that didn't yield much this year, but sure did look great.

The students worked very hard moving tons of earth into the brand-new beds that parents built a few weekends ago. Now we have a total of EIGHT raised beds!

Garden beds situated

Iris and Ulysses and I worked on the beds from 3 to 5 Monday afternoon. A parent named Mark helped us move them into place. His son will be starting kindergarten in the fall, and they had been attending the kindergarten preview. Bethney, whom many of us already know, was also there with Henry, who's starting K in the fall also, and Silas and George, her first-grader and newborn, respectively. She helped move beds, and took some great photos!

We filled 2 of them about 2/3 full of a mixture of topsoil and compost from the enormous piles Don trucked in.

The wood of the beds is flat to the ground. The extra length of post is at the top. It can be used to help attach covers or supports.