What's Coming Up in the Gardens?

To be planted in the fall gardens are onions, collards, broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce and tomatoes. The garden currently has some eggplant ready to be harvested soon. We tried using water boiled with onion and garlic to kill some bugs on the plants. Perhaps the mixture was not quite potent enough because the insects were back in a day or two. The mixture is repellent to them, but to me it smelled like the beginnings of spaghetti sauce!

Now         and then....  

Fourth grade students planted a mandarin orange tree on Monday, September 30, 2013. They worked hard and managed to keep all the fruit on the tree. A job well done is all to be said.

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The School Year 2013 2014

WE WILL MISS SUSAN PARKER AND KATE HICKS THIS YEAR!!

BEST WISHES TO THEM!!

Today September 16, 2013, a new group of food adventurers made a trip to the gardens so that they could get them ready for planting. The jobs were to pull out dead plants, turn the soil and look for vegetables that could be used in the kitchen.

When we went to the kitchen we found a few things to make a Hurricane Pie. It is called this because it is a pie that might be able to make without electricity. Unfortunately, our pie did not turn out so well. We used almond milk, vanilla pudding and a graham cracker crust. The pudding did not set up correctly, but it tasted alright in a cup.

News Flash! Hugh Radishes Found in Gardens!

April 22, 2013

Second grade students have been spotted measuring the sizes of their radish crop this spring. The fourth graders were seen admiring the radishes. There are big plans for radish salads for the culinary kitchen. Way to go! 

Link to Additional Information Via SBISD News

Mrs. Parker made sure the word was out about the gardens!

http://sbisdsnapshots.blogspot.com/2012/10/woodview-elementary-volunteers-build.html

Early Stages

February 11, 2013 Apple blossum

We are moving along.

Pictures of the First Days

Yesterday we staked out the ground after school, with cinder blocks stacked nearby and soil in a huge pile not far away.

We had wonderful Woodview students and their parents, as well as awesome students from Spring Woods High School helping with some really heavy work! A HUGE THANK YOU TO EVERYONE THAT CAME OUT!! We also appreciate our principal Neda Scanlan for allowing us to set up the gardens and dig holes for fruit trees in the courtyard. 

A Houston Chronicle photographer came out to take photographs. Maybe we will be in the newspaper, again. Oh, take a look at today's front page (Vol. 111, No. 331) has a great article ("Roots grow deep on this short street", by Kyrie O'Connor) about 1960sWoodview students living on Centennial Street who have become extraordinary successful Americans in their careers. Woodview will continue this legacy as the administrators, parents, teachers, students and the community work to strive for the success of this young generation that have the future ahead of them.  

We had wheelbarrows, too! Monday we will be clean and ready for school and a new day to learn. We were so fortunate to have a day that wasn't 100+ degrees outside. There was a breeze, as well. When all was said and done I couldn't even wring sweat out of my bandanna!

Groundbreaking

We are planning to build the gardens on Saturday, September 8th, beginning at 7:30. Bad weather day is the following Saturday, the 15th. There will cold water and snow cones to help fight the heat. We plan to prepare beds for four 12' X 4' raised beds using 16" cinder blocks. A labor of love. Thank you to Cowboy Trucking, Inc. for their generous (http://cowboytopsoilhouston.com/) discount on bed soil and the Lowe's for the discount on tools and cinder blocks. We look forward to seeing volunteers on the 8th at Woodview.