November happenings in the gardens

This month's meeting started with a crisp apple snack and a sampling of fruit from the gardens. 

Thank you to Mrs. Szabo for the yummy snack. 

We still hadn't had a hard freeze so earlier in the week I harvested the last of the tomatoes and peppers so the kids could try them for themselves. We composted all of the scraps. Most of the kids tried and liked our harvest. Some tried it and didn't like it, but at least they tried something. 

Then we started working in the gardens. First order of business was to remove the still thriving papaya tree from the compost pile. 

The kids broke it up and we put it into the compost pile, along with coffee grounds, shredded paper, food scraps and egg shells everyone brought from home. 

Some friends cleaned out the tomato bed and we composted those plants. 

They did a great job!

Another group worked hard in the second grade gardens cleaning out the dead plants and weeds. We cleaned those all up and trashed the weeds and composted the plant parts. 

A few friends turned the compost as much as they could before we had to hurry off to class for the day. 

Thanks to everyone, parents and students, for your hard work!