Today we harvested peppers, okra, a few tomatoes and purple beans. Trevor found a very unususal shaped okra. The two black swallowtail larvae that Miss Cass found Thursday on the bronze fennel plants has grown quite a bit; Thursday we'll look for their chrysalis.
The gardeners dug into the lasagna garden that we planted at the beginning of the summer. The components weren't completely digested. Sawdust, and leaves were still recognizable. The students found a very cool big garden spider with a very large teal shaped egg sac - see the picture.
In the classroom Miss Kirsten taught the lesson on Trading Traits. Using a diagram of a corn plant, she described how ideal plant traits are made using selection, plant breeding, mutation and gene manipulation. The young gardeners made their own plant mutations with fruit and other snacks.
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