a few things

It feels like the garden is really taking off! It is all very exciting and making me love Spring time even more this year. A few things:
1. My group is turning over the beds- but I am not sure if the compost soil has been added. Also, we are planning to water (see number 4 below).
2. It looks like some new things have been planted... so we will not turn that bed over.
3. Ms. Devine had the brilliant idea of numbering the beds so we know what is planted where and which bed we are taking about.
4. Do we have any kind of watering can vessel that we can use because the garden hose that is out there does not appear functional. Any other watering ideas?
5. Finally, and most importantly, the garden website that Ms. Krummel constructed is fantastic! The calender is very useful as is the countdown to harvest. Lovely!

Bee Scientific Study

Many of us have already heard that our regional honeybees are in decline. We have the opportunity to help study the local bee population and add our data to a national database. Our sunflowers and instructions are on their way. Learn more at: http://www.greatsunflower.org/en

Website

We have a website! I'm in the final stages of putting together a website for our garden. The website links back to this blog but allows us to organize our other information in one place (group calendar, wish list, compost presentation, garden map) as well as a "Days 'till Harvest" countdown tool.

http://sites.google.com/site/capuchinogarden/Home

yesterday, Tuesday, March 10

Yesterday my group turned the soil. It was a perfect day to be outside in the garden! I think we are ready to plant more seeds. Let me know when you want to do a garden map so we know what is planted where.

Chefs in the garden

Here are a few pictures of the FEAST class in the garden. Also a picture of the new cilantro plant. I also planted parsley, oregano,  and mint.

Today, Muli and Martha were planting chard, collard greens and we added soil amandment to the dirt and also to our garden. Then we water the new planted with water in pitures from our kitchen, because the water in the garden doesn't work. Pictures to come.

Compost

Zynal and Michele turned the compost. We had lots of FUN!!!!!!!!!!
There was lots of worms and ants!!!!!!! Gross!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Zynal did
a lot of the work. It was really hard!!!!!

New plants

I finally got to the nursery this weekend and bought some herbs and some organic soil amendment to use while we are waiting for our compost to be usable. I'll do some planting as soon as the weather is better.