Baldy View School Garden recieved a thoughtful donation of a beautiful concrete table and benches from Mrs. Tuazon, one of our playground supervisors. We have to find the perfect place for them so that everyone can take a load off their feet and enjoy the view! Please feel free to smell the flowers and have a nice rest in the garden next time you're there. Thanks Mrs. Tuazon!
We just heard the news that our school will receive 5 blueberry plants courtesy of the "US Highbush Blueberry Council"! They will be delivered from Oregon by mail during the next week. They are acid soil lovers, so we will have to hurry and ready the soil for them by amending it with peat moss. We hope that they will be planted on the next student assembly day so that all can welcome them into our garden. Yum!
Last week we pulled out our cotton plant as well as the eggplants, peppers, and tomatoes. They were looking sad after the frost got to them so we decided to take advantage of the nice cool whether and try some lettuce, spinach, brussel sprouts, carrots, beets and snap peas for a change. We planted the lupine and poppy plants in the new California Friendly garden, and put the peanut plants that we had started in pots into the ground in our vegetable garden. The garden club students decided to participate in a honey bee scientific survey, so we are trying to grow "Lemon Queen" sunflowers so that we can observe how many bees are attracted to the flowers. We might try a similar experiment for Monarch Butterflies if we can get some wild milkweed seed to grow. Mrs. Sorvetti wants to try to grow a couple of gluten free grains called "Quinoa" and "Amaranth", the latter being a plant that the ancient Aztec civilization grew for food as well as a natural dye. We'll have to see what happens.
The weeds are flourishing in our gardens and we have a hard time keeping up with them. We have to keep our gardens looking their best, so please feel free to pick a few weeds anytime you're so inclined! Thanks!
Inch by Inch, Row by Row, We're gonna make our gardens grow!
We just heard the news that our school will receive 5 blueberry plants courtesy of the "US Highbush Blueberry Council"! They will be delivered from Oregon by mail during the next week. They are acid soil lovers, so we will have to hurry and ready the soil for them by amending it with peat moss. We hope that they will be planted on the next student assembly day so that all can welcome them into our garden. Yum!
Last week we pulled out our cotton plant as well as the eggplants, peppers, and tomatoes. They were looking sad after the frost got to them so we decided to take advantage of the nice cool whether and try some lettuce, spinach, brussel sprouts, carrots, beets and snap peas for a change. We planted the lupine and poppy plants in the new California Friendly garden, and put the peanut plants that we had started in pots into the ground in our vegetable garden. The garden club students decided to participate in a honey bee scientific survey, so we are trying to grow "Lemon Queen" sunflowers so that we can observe how many bees are attracted to the flowers. We might try a similar experiment for Monarch Butterflies if we can get some wild milkweed seed to grow. Mrs. Sorvetti wants to try to grow a couple of gluten free grains called "Quinoa" and "Amaranth", the latter being a plant that the ancient Aztec civilization grew for food as well as a natural dye. We'll have to see what happens.
The weeds are flourishing in our gardens and we have a hard time keeping up with them. We have to keep our gardens looking their best, so please feel free to pick a few weeds anytime you're so inclined! Thanks!
Inch by Inch, Row by Row, We're gonna make our gardens grow!
