Week 2




This week our major focus is to finish clearing out our spot and plant all of our "crops" in egg cartons in the classroom.  We have made some major progress thanks to Ms Blume, the very appropriately named horticulture teacher at our school.  Her class delivered many much needed garden tools in the form of shovels, rakes and hoes.  So now, everybody can work and we don't have to take turns using the tools we had.

My classroom is starting to look like the garden department at Lowe's.  There are containers everywhere.  Unfortunately, I don't have a updated picture, these are from last week and our stash has nearly double since then. Everyday we are planting or transplanting to make room.  I hope that we will have tons of plants to move outside after spring break!

We have been so busy working that we haven't stopped to talk about goals.  My goals for this project are simple: 1. Grow all our plants from seeds, 2. Be able to harvest something that the kids can eat, 3. Finish this project out through the end of the year, 4. Become the fascilater of this project, in other words the kids are blogging, taking pictures/video and making every decision based on what they have learned.

So far we have thriving squash and baby bean growing.  We have planted red bell peppers, jalapenos, grape tomatoes and zucchini in the classroom and should germinate next week sometime.  We have also started a "Vegetable Graveyard" but more on that later.