The Final Harvests

GARLIC!!

Lots of Onions


Giant Easter Egg Radishes

Beautiful Harvest

Building New Critter Cages with Mr. and Mrs. Williams

David and Sue Williams helped us build new critter cages today. Mr. Williams designed them and donated the first one several weeks ago. We put the chicken wire on one of the two he built for us this morning, and we will cover the second one on Thursday or Friday.

May Update

On Wednesday we weeded the gardens. Unfortunately, some plants didn't survive the process! :-) However, we still have lots lettuce, mustard, radishes, cress, and spinach that are coming on strong in our warm weather. Our buckets of water don't match the natural moisture that rain would provide, and we've begun to wish that low pressure moisture would make its way into our high pressure days. (That's what we are now studying.)

Planting the Seeds for Indoor Grow Lights

Vermicomposting in the Classroom

We have guests in our classroom until the end of the year; red wiggler composting worms! Mr. Williams, the master gardener who advises us on our gardens, brought them to us yesterday, and we'll keep them until summer. You can learn more about them at http://lewis.wsu.edu/mg/mrc/Vermiculture.pdf.

Planting the Spring Garden

Before we left for spring break, we planted our gardens with lettuce, radishes, spinach, mustard, and carrots. Hopefully the warm weather will encourage their germination and we'll find real plants when we return to school.