It's a Plot

The gardens look really good.  We do have to be diligent about bug patrol.  We found this weird one today - don't know what it is.

We had the biggest produce harvest so far this year; zucchini, squash and okra.

Weighing our zucchini

Sunburst Squash

In today's lesson, Ms Cass taught us how to design a garden plot, making sure to consider spacing, specific needs of each plant, and zones.  We designed our own dream garden plot. Here is Ms.Cass's

Here is the recipe for the waffle gilletts from Duncan's mom.  Everyone loved these!

Gilletts

1 1/2 cups brown sugar
1 1/2 cups white sugar
2 sticks butter/margerine
2 Tbs. crisco
6 eggs
4 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1/2 tsp. salt
1 Tbs. vanilla

Cream shortening, butter, and sugars together. Add eggs, vanilla, and salt. Add flour.
Bake on a waffle iron until brown.

Zoning Out

We found lots of spotted and striped cucumber beetles in the garden today. We also saw ladybugs and pollinator bees. The gardens look really good, considering the hot, dry weather we've had. Here is some of the produce we harvested today.

Megan's 8-ball zucchini

odd shaped okra

Today's lesson was about Cold Hardiness Zones. Mr. Lala Kumar, horticulture specialist, was our guest speaker. Mr. Kumar has lived and worked all over the world. He taught the young gardeners about zones, and what types of plants grow in the different climates.

After the lesson we made bird houses out of gourds. Here is Marina painting her bird house.

Marina's birdhouse

Fruit Or Veggie

 

Speaking of flowers we had a fun craft today. We made duct tape flowers they turned out amazing. 

Pistils, Petals and Other Parts

Today Ms. Linda taught us about the different parts of a flower and what they're for. She brought in a fun flower hat and Megan and Duncan tried it on.


Duncan in the flower hat

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Megan in the flower hat.

Today we harvested zucchini, okra and squash.


Mariah holding Angelina's 8-ball Zucchini.

Caleb's Zucchini

Josh's Squash

Russell's Okra

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Shine On

Today Ms. Linda tought about photosynthesis, which is how plants get their food.

We made paper rubbings of mint leaves.

Later on we had a craft. We made ladybug bean bags.

Then we tossed them in a sheet and made them fly!

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Sand, Silt or Clay

Today while weeding and watering, we found a squash bug and a spotted cucumber beetle. This is what they look like. We squished the bugs we found in our garden!

Squash bug

Spotted cucumber beetle

The young gardeners looked at diffrent types of soil to see the diffrence in soil texture and particle size. They did an experiment with soil. They took diffrent types of soil and put them in a bottle with detergent and water and shook it. They will leave it undisturbed for a few days then check to see if the layers seperated.

Grow Grow Grow your Beans

Today we devised experiments with beans and different growing conditions. In two weeks we will check the results to see if our hypotheses are correct.

We planted our signs in our gardens. Here are the young gardeners standing with their signs.

Russell

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Duncan

Jazz

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Megan

Angelina

Mariah

Sway

Marcus

Marina

Caleb

Josh

Lily