FS Garden Club 2023

July 7 –

Watered the garden, picked tomatoes and LOTS of peas. Then settled down to paint – draw and paint.

June 30 –

June 23 –
We did very little gardening, but checked out the growing beans, peas, squash, potato, broccoli, kale, sunflower plants and ate borage flowers. Penny spent time checking the details of what needs to be feed and how much water the pots are getting -gotta soak them more!

The drawing challenge was to find a spot – a plant or group of plants – to draw. The challenge will be to draw that same view in a couple of weeks. So date and record the area of the drawing to compare with the next drawing of the same view.

June 16 – Summer Hours –

Gardening in the morning is my favorite. Not quite with gardening kiddos. A few pictures to share and Bronson took most of them. Munched on borage flowers – skeptically. We scored 4 more tomato plants and large pots got them planted. Also planted some kale plants. Later in the day W&T snuck in 2 more pots and tomato plants. Thought I’d share I love the potato plant flowers – violet and yellow.

May 31 –

Group photo! We planted squash, herbs – plants and seeds, more peas, poppies, rainbow chard.

May 24 –

We remembered a group photo! Lots of weeding in the beds and planted a few flower starts and two short rows of Cosmic Purple Carrots. And as always worms! Magnifying glass were used with a lot of excitement.

Weekly check up

May 17 – I didn’t get a group photo! 😕 But we did lots of weeding – pulling grass/weeds from around the pots and beds. Planted more tomato plants and added 4 pepper plants. We also planted beans – climbers not bush beans like last year. 🤪 We have arches and would like to have the beans climbing.

We added a storage box to keep tools and such at the garden and the canopy does fit! Yay! We/I don’t have to carry it back and forth from my classroom.

We checked on the orchard and the only tree that looks like it might have fruit is one of the pear trees.

May 10 – Planted a lot of starts today : broccoli, red and sweet Walla Walla onions, cosmos, peas – starts and seeds, tomatoes, perennial flowers, watermelon. Wonderful crew of gardeners and Heidi there to help too. (Phew!) Oh! and Mrs. Currie pounded in four more posts/stakes so next week we can finish building the arch and plant beans.

May 3 – it was potato planting day. I didn’t get the camera out with very dirty hands. Some perennials are growing, plenty of volunteer sunflowers and snuck in a couple of broccoli.

April 26 – Filling more beds with soil, compost and manure, finding money? and can’t get enough of the ladybugs in the orchard.

April 19 – John Bair came and taught/talked about pruning the little orchard in the back of the school. Heidi and I learned a lot and I believe the kiddos picked up info too. Mr. Hollan, aka Mr H, received a grant and did all the back labor planting and laying the watering system. There are 12 fruit trees: 2 Plum, 8 Apple, 2 Pear. John mentioned that a few trees might even flower and fruit.

We discovered a colony of ladybugs at the base of a plum tree and a praying mantis egg. What finds! Very exciting, distracting and awesome. Kind of hard to stay interested in the Old Guy talking about pruning trees. 😉

The orchard was planted spring 2020. I think we need to name the orchard. . . .Mr H’s Orchard, Mr H’s Moose Treat Orchard, Mr H’s —-

Seems like a bit of ladybug and praying mantis science needs to be squeezed into art class.