Horseradish

What an exciting E3 Friday.  The Goldfinch group had a very productive day at the GSB Farm.  Our group's kindergartners, 1st, 2nd and 3rd graders harvested a lot of horseradish.  If you were inside the school after 10:30 you would have seen the baskets full of horseradish root on the table in the foyer.  So exciting!  As a 1st grader boldly stated as he was yanking on a long horseradish root through the garden, "We're going to get you horseradish, you can't get away from us!"  I love it.

While the youngsters were wrestling horseradish our 4th and 5th graders were planting fall crops where the corn had been growing inside the fence.  Earlier in the morning a group of 5th graders cleared the plot and readied it for planting.  Then, during E3 Friday, students planted carrots, peas (thanks Kira!), sugar-snap peas, and radish.  We divided their bed in half and planted seed from 2009/2010 in the left half and 2011/2012 in the right half so we can later compare germination rates/success.

After E3 Friday, I cleaned up the horseradish bed, added manure and compost and planted spinach.  In early October we will over seed  cover crops in these beds to winter-over.

So cool!