The fascinating world of the Orca K-8 school garden!

cheers!

Anytime you see youth eating fresh salad and enjoying it- it’s a beautiful day. Now if the youth GREW that salad, i think it’s even more beautiful. Our butter crunch lettuce finally came into fruition, so we  harvested it, along with radishes, chard, and kale flowers. Lettuce is so easy to grow!

lettuce garden

I made an easy vinegarette with olive oil and apple cider vinegar. I even put some pinches of curry I brought back from India if they wanted a little spice in their life.  After we ate up the salad, we drank mint tea from this season’s harvest. Delicious.

yum yum

plant or kid?

We finally got our pumpkins, squashes, and cucumbers in the ground. What some call a dismal, gray, wet,  Seattle June-I call a boon for the garden! Most of the plants love this mild, wet weather (sorry tomatoes).

The cool kids

We used a bunch of random burlap sacks as a mulch cover to keep weeds down around the plants, increase soil moisture, and maybe even keep the soil insulated a bit. This is all in preparation for a great Fall harvest 2012.

Burlap & squash goodness