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Back Row L to R: Noelle, Master Gardener Mary
Middle Row L to R: Master Gardener Liz, Connor, Jackson, Matthew, John, Sam, Dana, and Quinn Front Row L to R: Luke, Quinn, Jacques and Ben (Click any photo to enlarge) |
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| The potatoes are in bloom! |
Today at the Giving Garden (Wednesday, July 10, 2013) Liz and I met a great group of young men, along with their terrific chaperones, from the Summer Stretch program at Christ Episcopal Church in Woodbury. Last year this group helped with harvest and loved it. This time, we didn't have anything ready to harvest...except weeds!
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| Hands showing the lesson on plant root structure |
After getting a tour of the garden and getting a good close look at our planting rows and tags we learned about plant structure to make the most of our weeding efforts.
Before we got started weeding in the rows we noticed a few 'little helpers' fluttering around the area. A perfect introduction for our "Pollinators" lesson!
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| One of our pollinators, a busy bee |
We learned how pollination works and that more than bees are busy in our garden! Bats, birds, butterflies, bees, wasps and flies work hard to make our food and plants produce good things for us.
Check out http://kidsgrowingstrong.org/Pollination
After watching a small pollinator in action with a magnifying glass, we got busy. We picked 26.5 lbs of weeds today! Thanks gentlemen!!!
- Contributing writer - Master Gardner Mary Green
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| Weeding, and weeding and more weeding! Click to enlarge |
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| Adjusting the squash structures |
