Garden Club is work and fun!

This week in the gardens...

Monday was so much fun with a little distraction named Camo the baby goat. He got all of the love and attention. 

He was so soft and sweet. No one could keep their hands off of him. 

But we did get some work done...

We weeded.

In the butterfly garden we weren't sure what this plant was...weed or not?

And we planted tomatoes. 

On Thursday we weeded a bit more.  

And pulled out that unknown plant...

Oops! It was actually Milkweed, something the butterfly garden absolutely needed! Thanks to a wise student for knowing his stuff!

We found a cool critter...any guesses as to what this is?

The kids guessed right...it's a skink!

We planted seeds for zinnias and squashes.  We top dressed the herb garden and butterfly garden with compost. And we watered the gardens since it hasn't rained much in a couple of weeks. 

The tulips have faded so we filled in the spaces with zinnia seeds. Hopefully we will have blooms throughout the summer. 

Looking forward to what next month brings in the gardens. 

Spring

This week we worked on getting the garden beds ready for planting. 

We found some interesting creatures. 

This guy was swimming in a puddle in a garden. 

And this guy was quickly evicted from a hole in another garden bed. 

We received some new tools for our use. One was a donation from a parent and volunteer. He even engraved it for us. Thank you Mr. Drahms and KC!

Another tool is this awesome wagon the kids can use to haul compost to other gardens around school. It was purchased by the PTA and put together and delivered to school by another parent and volunteer. Thank you Mrs. Szabo and Kyan. 

Our snack on Monday was tulip themed to go with our tulip garden. 

Thank you to everyone for your support of this project. And a special thanks to the Thursday group. They worked outside in the rain without complaint. They were serious troopers!