the wet rainy day of are gardan at stewert

A wet and rainy day in the community garden today in the garden. We were wearing goofy looking ponchos thank Mr.Iverson Everyone tried to plant some seeds but the the soil was to clumpy

It was hard to walk up the hill today because our rain garden flooded over the side we have alot of work to do.

Planting Finally Begins

Today it was finally warm enough to plant some of our cold weather crops. Peas, Lettuce, Carrots, beets, radishes and other veggies were our goal. Many of us have never planted before so we went slowly. It was very windy which didn't help either.

Julian is planting carrot seeds for the first time.

Sprouts Eye View

OUR RAINGARDEN REPAIRS WORKED! Adding extra mulch and beefing up the traingarden banks stopped the water from filling up the water main boxes and hopefully puting a smile on the faces of the grounds and maintenance people :)

normal dayz at last!!!!

everyones back to there old jobs doing what they do best there daily stuff like... 



jeremy and the litter pick up!!!!!



we can no!! we want to plant our seeds but our seeds are missing



our team of  the great wheel barrelers





this shows that you may not rent this bed because of the pink dot



Tabby rockin a wheelbarrow

Jeffrey Spreading wildflower seeds around the raingarden

Almost Ready to Plant!

YES! Finally ready to plant cold soil veggies like peas and many more!

Cody and Julian the masters of the wheelbarrow squad

We made the raingarden banks higher and added more woodchips to a commonly soggy area

We are collaborating with Mr. Schwangers Construction Tech Class to build a fence up the South side of the garden

Jake carryinga a post hole digger back from the garden.

aquaponics tank

today we are starting to make our aquaponics tank michael and kelly are here to help us make them. They where talking about what we can do to make them at home.How it would be cool if the whole school had one in there classroom.

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this is kinda what it looks like but the water looks durty

we are all most readty to get planting



  



We had some extra strawberries so we planted them!



Elijah and Deshawn planting more Strawberries



Soil temperature is almost there we just need 5 more degrees.



We planted some more strawberry clones in our salvaged circle raised beds!

inside and out

Today we have to do some inside work and some outside so we can get alot done today.Its going to be great even though the weathers not on our side!!

here is Jeremiah filling a circle bed.

Jeremy is our litter patrol he will pick up litter all around the school anymore Thanks Jeremy!!!



YAY! Jeremy pick up that litter!!!



Some people are outside working on geting the strawberrys transplanted to a new home and yes the dirt is a home to them like a house is to us.



Mr.Iverson,Wyatt and Justin are transplanting starwberrys YAY!!!!!



DAKHOTA!!! our bridge is working on a commercial script we all really cant wait to read it.I bet its going to be awsome.

I know its hard to see but this is some of the people sitting inside researching some stuff for the garden

Here are the jobs and the people who are doing them.I hope we can reach our goals for today and hope all of us stay on track.

OUTSIDE JOBS

Wyatt-Transplanting Strawberries

Jeremy- Litter Removal

Justin- Strawberry Transplant

Alex Strawberry Transplant

Jeremiah- Circle Bed Fill

INSIDED JOBS

Jeffrey Book Research

Amaya/Tabby/Kamorah-Blog

Dalante/Patrick- Internet Research

please comment on our blog we would like to hear what you think!!!!

this is the first all kid blog post done by me: Amaya

Adrianna holding one of our worms from the worm garden(:

Deshawn...well this one is self exlpanatory.

Mr. Schwanger's Construction Tech Class is working on a sighting out a fence for us!

Snow = muddy muddy day!!!

Today we got about 2 inches of snow in the morning further delaying our planting season unfortunately.

we also found out finally that they will not be installing a football field and track this summer which could have put our garden in jeopardy :(

so so so cold and getting colder
we'll never be able to plant now!



New Tagro Soil!

Thanks to the city of Tacoma we got a fresh batch of Tagro potting soil for free. We have been consistantly thankful and very appreciative of all the amazing donations they have given us!

we got 8 yards of soil from the city of Tacoma (Tagro) Potting Soil. Its so nice!

in this picture you can see how we were mixing some of our mulch with some of our soil to conserve

While Jonathan was picking up garbage in the pond he posed for a picture...

Jaliyah spreading soil in the bed (but next time she'll stand outside the box)

Adrianna: "There was a hecka long worm there and I felt bad for it so I put it away"

New Sandwich Board Sign!

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A little neon paint goes a long way!

the final product

Michealangelo and Picasso at work.

Brainstorming Day

Kamorah and Kondalia  finished square foot gridding our last bed for the giving gardens.

Patrick swept up the dirty wood chip pile.

Jeremy and Russel did the usual litter rounds

The rest of the team started storyboarding out our very first commercial to work with Dakhota our SOTA bridge to make.

We brainstormed ideas for lemonade/hot cocoa stands, car washes and all team litter clean up.

No pictures today but a good day never the less.

PARTAAAAAAAY!

Today the B-Day gardening cleases got a pizza party for all their hard work and great attitudes.

Pizza, Brownies, Capri-Suns what else could you ask for on a friday afternoon?

More Garden Gridding and Soil Temps

B-Day garden kids got it going on! Today we worked so hard outside getting woodchips to all of the thin spots and soggy parts around the rain garden and beyond.

We also finished gridding out a couple of beds and picked up litter.

Soil temperatures are still down around 37 degrees (F) which is still too cold to get our peas in dangit!

brrrrrrr. too cold for seeds.

Jeremy, Alex, and Justin after finishing the grids on their beds.
If you would like a definition of three hardcore awesome dudes this is it.

To end, Mr. Iverson got a little teary today because the kids in BDay garden are so amazingly nice, and interested and trying so hard to get this garden off the ground.

Because we are doing so well we will have a pizza party tomorrow in honor of all the hard work!!!

WAY TO GO!!!!