Garden is ready for a new school year! August 22, 2011

Thank you to everyone who volunteered throughout the summer to keep the garden watered!  We had many community members as well as Stoddert families that signed up to take care of the garden during the hot days of summer.  The plants look great!   A very big thanks to all the volunteers (kids, parents, community member and even the architects of Stoddert) that came out for Beautification Day on Saturday.  We worked throughout the morning and fixed the greenhouse, organized the shed and WEEDED the whole garden!  It was hot but everyone worked very hard.  Thank you for coming out!

No more weeds!

 

The newly organized shed! Amazing!

 

Volunteers working hard pulling weeds!

 

Working Hard

 

Weeding is hard work!

 

 

Beautification Day August 13, 2011

Beautification day will be August 20 starting at 8:30 AM.  Help us get the garden ready for the arrival of the students next week!  Bring your gardening gloves and tools!

Gardening is hard work! June 22, 2011

Happy first day of summer!  Now that our garden is in full bloom, we have been working hard to keep the garden in tip-top shape.  In the last weeks of school we had students watering and weeding the garden.  As school ends and summer begins, we have some wonderful volunteers that have signed up to water and weed throughout the summer.

Third grade students weeding the "antennae" on the butterfly

What’s growing in the garden

Our fruits and vegetables are really beginning to sprout!  Check out what’s growing in the garden!

Do you like to eat squash? Did you know you can also eat the blossoms as well!

Blueberries are ready to be picked!

Strawberries

Peas, ready to eat!

Time for a nice summer salad!

Third Graders Tour the Washington Youth Garden June 16, 2011

Yesterday, the third graders in Ms. Choi and Ms Chatalian’s class had the opportunity to visit the Washington Youth Garden at the US National Arboretum.

We went on a scavenger hunt in the garden and got to try out different types of herbs that we’ve never tried before like sorrel, fennel, lemon basil and chives.  We ran our fingers through the many different types of mint to smell the differences in the types.  We also learned about vermaculture or worm composting and about why healthy soil is important to the garden.  We even got to sample fresh raspberries straight from the bush! We also got to look at different types of gardens within the arboretum!

Our trip helped us to become excited about gardening and we are eager to take everything we’ve learned at the WYG back to the Stoddert Garden!!

Students learn about composting

Third Graders at the Washington Youth Garden

Students visit the gardens of the arboretum

Aquatic Gardens

Plant Watch: Pumpkin

Yesterday, Ms. Redman’s second grade class went out to plant several varieties of pumpkins.  Keep your eyes out on the first two plots next to the greenhouse!  

Plant Watch: Native American Cotton June 15, 2011

Have you ever used a cotton ball or a Q-tip?

Are your clothes made out of cotton?  Check the tag!

Do you use a fluffy cotton bath towel?

So many things come from cotton and did you know it comes from a plant?!

We will get a first hand look on how cotton is grown.

Ms. Prosser’s fourth grade class has planted Native American cotton in the raised bed next to the herbs!  Keep your eyes out for it.

When it is ready to be harvested it will look like this!