Friday, May 11, 2012

A busy week in the garden! Planting rows of corn and such!! by Isabelle and Eugene


Hello again fellow farmers! This week we have gotten a lot accomplished, this is all very exciting and the garden is rapidly evolving into a magnificent landscape. Here you see Ruben, Eugene and Adam making rows to plant corn. Even thought we already had corn planted, unfortunately we jumped the gun and planted them too early so the weather was too cold for them to live. ): We hope that these corn plants grow to be beautiful and yummy for us to nibble on! :D 






























We also made many improvements to our garden. Here you see Isabelle and Eugene making trellises so that we could train our pea plants to climb up the string. Our pea plants are getting so tall, but no peas have blossomed for us to snack on yet.









1    And we don’t allow anything to go to waste. Any plants that may have passed their harvesting period or have not survived the weather are collected together and put into our school made village compost pile. Adam is working hard to keep stacking up our compost higher and higher so that we can reuse it for fertile soil and better soil for our plants. (right)









We also started planting new seeds so we can expand our garden even more! We planted tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, onions and lots of other seeds that are going to ensure that whenever you want a healthy snack whatever vegetable it is, our garden will have it for you!  (below)




This week has been one of our most productive in Microfarming, working on creating the last vegetable rows in the garden, planting even more vegetables in our flower pots, and creating pizza with the materials we grew and making it healthy and delicious for the whole class to enjoy.





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