K-3 Garden Spring 2012

K-3 Garden Spring 2012
A cleaned out garden bed.

The Pingry Pumpkin Patch is coming soon!

Both pumpkin beds weeded & flowers sprouting! June 2011
Giant pumpkin beds July 16, 2011
The regular pumpkin beds-weeded!
       
A giant pumpkin growing outside the fence!
A little green pumpkin growing outside of the fence!



The regular pumpkin seed sprouts!
   The giant pumpkin seed sprouts!














The weeded giant pumpkin bed on June 26, 2011




Wow! Who knew that so many pumpkins were going to grow OUTSIDE the fence??? Now, we're busy hoping that the deer and other NJ critters don't eat them! Ms. SW has been in the garden watering, weeding and tackling the fence around the Kindergarten pumpkin beds! Two spider bites and one tetanus shot later, the pumpkins are finally growing! On June 22nd Ms. SW weeded the  pumpkin beds for the first time with lots of help from the Summer Enrichment pre K students! There were no yellow flowers in the beds before we weeded. Within 24 hours, there were giant yellow pumpkin flowers blooming! Put on your thinking caps and see if you can figure out WHAT happened to make the change? Here are some pictures taken throughout the watering and weeding process!

Ms.Collins checks out the racket! What's going on out there?

Ms.Collins checks out the racket! What's going on out there?

Reading the chore list...

Reading the chore list...
Checking out the chores before heading out to the garden to get a few things done.

Hard at work!

Hard at work!

Filling the wheel barrow

Filling the wheel barrow

Wonderful, nutritious soil!

Wonderful, nutritious soil!

Aerating soil

Aerating soil

Deep, dark, rich soil!

Deep, dark, rich soil!

Checking out the veggie flats

Checking out the veggie flats

What are we growing here?

What are we growing here?

Watering the veggie flats

Watering the veggie flats

The woodchips finally arrived!

The woodchips finally arrived!

Spreading out the wood chips!

Spreading out the wood chips!

1SW has one last FROZEN work day in the garden!

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!