Finishing touches, Wednesday, June 3

To make sure our new seedlings don't fade away, we will meet on Wednesday, June 3, at 6 p.m. to water, plant a few extra plants to replace weak seedlings, and finish tightening up the fence. We will need 4 or 5 people to water quickly. See you there, and make sure to call if you need a ride!

Waiting for rain. . .

On Saturday and Sunday we put in our garden and the fence. Here master gardener Jaimé and Abdisalan plant one of our "green" seed tapes--constructed of toilet tissue, washable school glue and seeds. We got tons of work done and had lots of help both days. We will probably get back on our regularly scheduled gardening time of 6 p.m. on Wednesdays, starting this week on June 3. We still have a few extra peppers to plant, put some finishing touches on the fence, and water the garden, if it doesn't rain before then.

Planting Day--postponed until Saturday, May 30

Due to the rain overnight and today, we will delay our garden work until Saturday, May 30, so that the freshly tilled soil can dry out enough to work. See you there! We will try to start at about 1:00 p.m. and work until the garden is planted.

Planting, May 27, 2009

Yes, it's that time again, guys! We will be meeting at spaces 137, 138 in the Zumbro community gardens on Wednesday afternoon to put in our garden. We have a variety of vegetables this year, including the delicious plum tomatoes shown above, San Marzano, that we started from seeds in the classroom. Other plants from our classroom are Homestead heritage tomatoes, jalapeño peppers, and the MOST beautiful Asian cucumbers. We will add homemade seed tapes of corn, sugar snap peas, black-eyed peas, and bush beans. Add to that three kinds of potatoes--Yukon Gold, Russett and red; onions and some seed tapes of lettuce (purchased) and variety lettuce, to name a few. Come out and join us--more hands make less work! We should try to get started at about 5:30-6:00. If you need a ride, let us know. See you there.

Winter fundraising!

We are so lucky to have been awarded two concession opportunities at Mayo High School girls' basketball games. The first one is Friday, January 23, and the second is Friday, February 6. We will need 4 or 5 students for each evening and the time commitment is approximately 5 p.m. to about 9 p.m. We will be able to earn some sweet moola for our garden next summer. We could even expand our plots to 3 and get some great plants and supplies. Keep these dates in mind and let us know if you'd like to help sell concessions at either of these two games. See you then, and let's keep in touch!

September gardening

Our garden is winding down as the days get shorter, and we get back to school. We picked peppers, tomatoes, onions, and corn today, with lots of tomatoes still ripening. We are nearly done with harvesting most of our crop. Next week and following weeks, we will finish the tomato picking and later clean out our spot and save fencing and posts for next year's garden. We hope to do some fundraising over the fall and winter to help make our garden really great next year.

Beautiful weather, beautiful vegetables. . .