Last day

I have been doing random hours over the past 2 weeks but this weekend really put my time to the garden because I am now done with all my hours! :) I spent today harvesting green beans/removing plant, planting hofsta, putting wood multch in alc bed, putting leaf multch in science wing, and making the beds twice as big near carriage barn.

It was a great summer and I learned a lot.

My Final Day!

Hi everyone! It's rachel. As Mary stated, today is my last day working in the garden and on campus. I just wanted to thank Mr. Crossin, Mr. Bracker, Ms. Powell, and the donors for this wonderful opportunity. I was so grateful to be able to work outside during the summer to beautify our campus. Thank you also to my amazing partner, Mary, for helping me out so much and keeping me company during the long hours. Mary, you're the best! We worked so hard and accomplished a great deal and I hope our fellow classmates take notice. So as of 3 o'clock this afternoon, I have fulfilled my 120 hours for this internship. Thanks again for trusting me to help brighten the campus! 

Today is Rachel's last day working in the garden, I still have 14 hours left and will miss her lots! 

We worked in the garden creating a new bed along the science wing wall and the garden. We moved logs to act as our natural barrier for the beds. We also planted flowers in the bed along the ALC that we created yesterday. Along with the normal routine to make campus pretty for the start of school :)  

Day 31!

Today Rachel and I had lots of work to do.

With the help of Danny Blinderman we, mulched the front of goodwin, dug new beds and filled them with leaf mulch. We also created a new bed on the back side of goodwin by laying down 3-5 inches of leaf mulch and fertilizer down.

Tomorrow and later today we need to:

Put equipment away in the shed

Make a bed along the science wing and next to the garden

Put manure between the doors of the ALC

Put more leaf mulch on top of the manure ^^

Deadhead the roses

Harvest carrots

Find the buckets that have gone missing

and maintain our normal routine

Day 30!

Wednesday,

Rachel dug a ditch on the front side of Goodwin to prepare for mulching. We picked the tomatoes and brought them to John in the kitchen and spent lots of time watering and tending to the gardens. Not to forget deadheading.

Day 29!

Tuesday,

Today we walked around campus weeding the beds around the carriage barn and the center island at schoool. We also spend a lot of time weeding between the beds and taking care of every single blade of grass growing. Soon we plan to cover the beds with more multch.

Day 28!

Sorry I havent been posting recently but the internet is down at my house.

So Monday I worked in the garden picking the tomatoes and putting them into a box to give to the kitchen staff. I also watered the garden and put a new layer of soil on top of the root vegetables. Rachel and I worked together watering the perenials and deadheading flowers around campus.