School Gardening at SRE 2016

Raised Beds put together by Garden Team Raised Beds put together by Garden Team! Cardboard Down, Garden Bed Kit Constructed, Alfalfa Hay, Compost, Garden Soil, Water Each Layer & Mulch.

by White’s & Barbaro’s Class on 3/4/16 1st Crops Planted by White’s & Barbaro’s Class on 3/4/16 Bed 1 – English Peas with Seeds/Flowers in Corners Bed 2 – Lettuce with Seeds Bed 3 & 4 – Collard Transplants Water Every Other Day with Fine Mist

Garden Growing

English Peas – Bed 1

Lettuce – Bed 2

Collards – Beds 3 & 4

Collards Ready to Harvest

Picking Our Collards to Cook & Taste

Collard Pickers

Planting Various Flowers & Plants in Beds with Mrs Planting Various Flowers & Plants in Beds with Mrs. Carolyn – Master Gardener

Everybody gets a chance to plant Everybody gets a chance to plant. For safety, we wear gloves when working in soil.

Lettuce Ready to Harvest

Our Beautiful Lettuce – Ready to Taste

English Peas Almost Ready for Taste Testing 1 More Week for Pods to Fill Out

Looking for Filled Out Pods on English Pea Plants

English Peas

Mrs. Barbaro’s & Mrs. White’s classes got to taste a Southern Style Collard Recipe and a Collard Dip made from our own collards grown in SRE’s School Garden.

Lettuce Wraps with Chicken Salad Collard Salad with Olive Oil A Garden Lunch featuring Lettuce Wraps with Chicken Salad Collard Salad with Olive Oil English Pea Pods Grown with helping hands in the SRE School Garden.

On 5/10/2016, our Master Gardener, Ms. Carolyn helped Mrs On 5/10/2016, our Master Gardener, Ms. Carolyn helped Mrs. White’s Class prepared garden for a new crop by pulling remainder of lettuce and English peas. Roots were removed from plants because they can carry disease. The lettuce and English peas will be recycled for Ms. Rogers’ class Composting Project. We will be planting Sweet Potatoes next week as our next crop. Sweet Potatoes are a great summer crop that will be ready to gather in the Fall.