End of the Term

Unfortunately spring term has gone by so quickly and our Organic Gardening class is coming to an end. But the great thing about this class is that the knowledge we learned about producing our own food is most likely to stick with forever! Those who will not be here in the summer wont be able to watch their plants grow and produce, but the plants will be cared for and eaten by other students who are here in the summer. Here is some final photos to look at how our garden crops are doing! We added a bunch of leaves to our walkways in order to suppress weeds as much as possible.

Brian's Plot is starting to take shape! As you can see, on the bottom right of this photo Carrots are sprouting and it only took one sow! Pepper plants are still growing and will take about 55 days to mature! Under the netting in the upper right corner cucumbers are growing!

After some bad luck with sowing these seeds directly in, organic cucumber starts were placed. A overhead trellis structure will be going in after these start growing!

Hannah's Plot is also filling out nicely! As you can see her lettuce is growing nicely and her Mint is thriving!

Her tomatoes are already starting to bloom with her basil growing in between!

Joe's Plot is also doing great! Some spinach is already to be harvested. His parsley is also maturing fast right next to his sunflowers.

Cheryl's plot is looking great! All her medicinal herbs around the border of her plot are thriving. The strawberries in the tower are loving their home and a sunflower carefully placed in the middle of the tower will add a nice touch.