Penstemon is one of the native plants that we planted in our garden back on September 12th. The blooms are a beautiful bright red or magenta and the hummingbirds and butterflys seem to love them! The sages are also starting to bloom now. We put up a butterfly house so that hopefully we will encourage them to lay their eggs in the garden and start the cycle over again!
This is one of the potato plants that came up from our potato patch that we planted last year! I guess we missed harvesting a few when we dug them up!
Here are a few of our crops that are producing currently.
Broccoli Eggplant Chilis
Cotton flowers change from a pale yellow to a rosey color before they fall off. Then the cotton boll forms after pollination. As soon as it is fully developed it will pop to reveal the white cotton covering the seeds inside! We are harvesting some regularly!
Here are a few of our crops that are producing currently.
Broccoli Eggplant Chilis
Cotton flowers change from a pale yellow to a rosey color before they fall off. Then the cotton boll forms after pollination. As soon as it is fully developed it will pop to reveal the white cotton covering the seeds inside! We are harvesting some regularly!
The garden club planted a pigeon pea plant that Mrs Sorvetti purchased from a Master Gardener who says they are easy to care for and very tasty. We shall see. We also planted onion sets and potatoes as well as some Aloe Vera donated to us by Emily's family. We are trying to baby along some papyrus grass that we dug up from the front planter at the school. Hopefully it will survive the transplant so that we can add it to the "Fertile Crescent" garden. Then the 6th graders can see what the ancient civilizations used to make some of the first paper. The garden club students have planted seeds for peanuts, beets, carrots, sugar snap peas, lupine, California Poppy, and columbine. Some of the seeds have already germinated and we are anxiously awaiting what will come up. We pulled up the tomatillos and the broccoli and we are getting ready to plant some of the winter vegetables. "Tree People" donated to our school an Apple tree and a Lime tree which we hope to have planted soon. The kids cooked a batch of Ratatouille back in the Fall and they enjoyed it so much that we decided to print a Garden Cookbook for all the families to enjoy. It was fun putting it together and sharing it with everyone before the winter break.
Enjoy the rain, Spring is on the way.
Enjoy the rain, Spring is on the way.
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