Rotation 2

Students from the second rotation planted 4 variety of lettuce and mulched some pathways just like the first rotation. They also moved rocks around to help again erosion and weeds.

Rotation 1

Students from the rotation one class mulched some of the pathways and planted 4 variety of kale. They learned that mulching helps with water conservation, erosion and weed control.

Kale, Lettuce and Spinach

Fall Garden Prepping

It's time to begin thinking about our fall garden. We have two major issues: drainage and nut grass. A wonderful gentleman named John Barr donated his time and effort to help us with the drainage problem. He was able to use some existing and new rocks along with a large pvc pipe to correct the situation. We are awaiting anxiously for a downpour and crossing our fingers to validate his incredibly hard work. Besides fixing the drainage issue, his work added previously unusable space so that our garden will be bigger and better than in the past. Thank you, John Barr!! We truly appreciate your kindness, expertise and effort for our garden!!

Erosion

We recently had a rain storm that had a great deal of flooding. "After we saw a video of the very hard rain close to the garden, we needed to put these rocks there to keep the soil from eroding. It worked!!", stated Cole. The fifth graders went to work to stop the erosion that was occurring in the garden. We placed pine needles around the garden and along the rows to help keep the topsoil in place. We also added rocks on the side of the garden to guide the water away from the row that we being eroded. Elise explained, "I thought that this was really neat and a good thing to do for the garden."