It'll be a BUGS week-end

This week-end the Green School will be supporting the BUGS program at Living Classrooms - its is a great plant sale and highlights their Utban gardening initiatives and student engagement. Put it on you calendar and go!

Prepped beds and plantings

The 5th grade has been working hard on Science Fridays preparing their beds for this years garden. The 5 raised-beds were rotated (the signs that is), and the soil had last years leaves, horse and chicken manure worked in.

Students planted some cool weather greens, carrots, beans and peas. They also planted some warm weather crops they had started - cantaloupe, peppers, and sweet basil.

The soil was teeming with earthworms and the soil was much less compacted with the new organics added in

Exciting blooms found at school

It was fantastic to return to surprise blooms this morning. The cabbage, mustard, and broccoli that was over-wintered has all set blooms. They are beautiful yellow flower clusters on the mustard and cabbage, and white on the broccoli.

Whats more is that the pollinators are loving it. A great array of bees and wasp and plenty of cabbage whites are around.

How cool is that?

Happy Spring Break

We hope everyone has enjoyed their spring break! It is so exciting to see all the colorful bulbs, shrubs and perennials showing off around the school and all of the pollinators hard at work. The sugar-snap peas are even showing their heads.

We will be planting some cool weather crops over the next few weeks (even as temps reach into the 80's for a spell) and doing some preparation of the raised-beds. It really is amazing how compact the soil has become in the raised-beds, even though they are never walked upon. It will some work to improve the soil structure, but we keep adding compost, carbons, and manure.

The canoe garden is doing well and the cabbage in some of the other containers could stand some harvesting. Our mason bees are working hard at the house, so we will be putting out the bee boxes at school this week.