Busy without me... =)

Yesterday the vegetable garden club met up and, I am very happy to report that the four members that showed did an awesome job of taking care of business without being told how or what to do. You see, I needed to go out to the plot to find more rocks and mow the tall stuff leftover from last year. While I was outside with a few volunteers, these four ladies of the veggie garden team took care of three things:

1) mini-potting the rest of the garlic
2) deciding on a watering schedule
3) writing a rough-draft thank you letter to a recent donor

Here's some pics of how tall the previously mini-potted garlics already are, and how much our cabbage has grown:




Hard to imagine in about 2 1/2 more months that these little plants will be a huge, dense ball of sweet nutritious deliciousness!

Speaking about donors, I think we've decided how to use SGA Youth & Family Service's donation -- they will provide us with the potting soil and fertilizer we'll need for our garden. Our more recent donation, which came from a local church, will probably be used to purchase two more water storage containers and to buy the supplies needed to build a total of FOUR rain catchment structures.

I was so excited thinking about the future of our garden, that I took a few minutes of time after school to plant some seeds myself:



We've been getting used 36-er egg cartons from Uncle Mike's on Grand, so these days its easy to start up a batch of pretty much anything on a whim! Although you can't see it, what will sprout from these little compartments is mustard greens, spinach and a baby lettucs mix. Mmmm!

Soon, we'll get a student member back on track with making the posts here... you see, right now there are so many new clubs, sports and other activities, that I'm having to rope the members outside of our core 5 or 6 in one by one...

-- Mr. M