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| This is the corn that was knocked over on July 9th. |
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| The corn is growing nice and tall! |
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| Which raised bed of corn had some extra help? |
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| Hey! What's this? |
The big fall clean up has begun! Students are raking leaves, cleaning out beds of old plants and dead heading the last few cycles of our beautiful marigolds. Our Pingry scarecrow has done its work and has been put away. Soon our garden will be a cold, still, quiet place as it goes to sleep for the winter.
K-3 Garden Spring 2012
A cleaned out garden bed.
The DeVito Corn Field...
Back in the spring, class 1-O planted corn and sunflower seeds sent in by the DeVito family. Well, the chipmunks and squirrels dug up and ate the sunflowers! They were supposed to help the corn stalks grow nice and tall! Then we had a big rain storm and some of the corn was blown over! So, Ms. Smith Willis went out and "added something yummy" to one raised bed full of corn and tied up the corn stalks to help them try to continue to grow throughout the summer. Can you guess which raised bed of corn had a little help? Now that it's almost the end of July, look what's growing!!!
Ms.Collins checks out the racket! What's going on out there?
Reading the chore list...
Checking out the chores before heading out to the garden to get a few things done.
Hard at work!
Filling the wheel barrow
Wonderful, nutritious soil!
Aerating soil
Deep, dark, rich soil!
Checking out the veggie flats
What are we growing here?
Watering the veggie flats
The woodchips finally arrived!
Spreading out the wood chips!
1SW has one last FROZEN work day in the garden!
Brrrrr! It was cold, but we managed to get a little more raking, digging and fertilizing done.
Our teacher finally put down the camera for one minute... Smile!
Lots of teamwork by garden groups!
Rocks to cover an unsightly drain... soon to be the home of our beautiful bird feeder from a special elf!
There's lots of raking to do and we had fun doing it!
We all worked together and a lot got done!
2 and 3rd graders working together!
This is how you do it!
Mrs. Euwer demonstrates her garden technique in her snazzy garden boots!
More composting!
Shoveling is harder than you think!