An Update on Our Progress

In Garden Club, we recently thinned the plants left in Cat Hall so not too many roots would absorb the water they get from us and nutrients they get from the soil. Also, by thinning the plants, we allowed more light to reach the remaining leaves. So instead of having 10 or 15 plants in a small pot, we now only have three. After that, we moved all of the lettuce from Cat Hall to the green house and finished watering them there. On Thursday, we’ll move the rest of the plants to the green house because it’ll be warm enough. It’s good to move plants from a different location on a day with good weather because if the environment were too different than the previous one, it could be a shock to the plant and possibly kill it. Sunflowers will also be added in the brown bins outside the green house but we have not planned a precise date when to do that yet.

Chris R.

Is Garden Club "Eco Friendly?"

Many of the things we do here in Garden club are very “eco friendly.” We grow our own plants and turn them into food that we then share with our classmates. This is considered eco friendly because it doesn’t use all the transportation methods used if you ordered what we already make from some other place. Now let’s say someone did that. What process would need to be taken to get that food from there to here? The people supplying the order would most likely need a truck to deliver it, which burns fuel and pollutes the air. Even before the truck delivers it, the store in which it was being held in uses up electricity. Also the packaging for the order is made in factories that use fuel, and that packaging ends up in landfills as waste. The garden club totally avoids all of those things. We plant all of our stuff in the green house and carry it down to the kitchen when it’s ready using no trucks, no electricity, while creating no waste.

Chris R.