Green Thumbs

Everyone we have a new Blog! If you go to MMS homepage and go to classes it will take you to a page with links. Click the one that says Green thumbs to get to our new blog! Now students can view the blog on the school laptops! Thank for following us and we hope to see you soon!

March 19, 2009

It’s been a while! The last time we blogged was almost a year ago! But don’t worry, we haven’t gone anywhere. We are back and this is our first blog this year. We have had 3 meetings already but just never gotten to the blog. We have 6 students here today: Skye, Josh, Taylor, Ashton, Page, and Kristen.

Today we have a lot to do. Everyone is doing one of the many things on our to do list so soon enough we’ll have the list shorten. First off we have a couple of students counting how much money we have. MMS received a 500 grant from the Flannel Shirt fund. We also got 42.15 dollars left over from last year. So our total money is 542.15 dollars which is just amazing. We are putting this money in a account for the Green thumbs. Yes! More money for more plants!

We are also setting up new light tables. This will make sure all our plants getting sunlight even while we aren’t at the school. We have a picture of the plants from another update and the plants our showen in a light table. The light tables have timers so it will stay on until the time is up that was set. Just think, more light tables more plants! This just in, Taylor has successfully repaired the big green tray in the light table! Yay!

And finally we transplanting. Thats when we  put the plants that we have planted a couple of weeks ago into a container with less plants in it so they have more room to grow more. Some plants we have is: onions, sage, marigolds, leeks, parsley, and chives. We will be selling these plants like we did last year. It’s like having garden shop in the school!

Anyway that’s what we have been doing for the 4th meeting of this year. Until next time, keep on watering!

There has been a lot of stuff going since our last update. We have been selling the plants that we have grown.  The tomatoes, basil, and American chestnut trees were big hits.

It looks like we should plant more herbs, flowers and chestnut trees next year.

Our marigolds are blooming like crazy but we are not selling them because we are going to plant them around our Medomak Middle School next week.   Next year we will grow some marigolds to sell.

Hopefully we will have a greenhouse by the end of next week.  Keep your fingers crossed.

Green Thumbs 4/28-4/30

On April 30, at our Green Thumb meeting, a lot more kids were here. A total of 12 kids came to help us. We had Isabelle, Jessica, Taylor, Abby, Jesse, Brittany, Kristen, Steven, Ariele, Anna, Oliva, and Breanna. We also had Mrs. Jaques and Mrs. Gates here too.
On April 30, we transplanted a lot of the plants in to different containers so that each and every plant has enough water and soil to survive. Now they longer have to compete for nutrients. For example, we had took about thirty Beef Steak tomatoes and we put them in individual  containers. So we went from one container to thirty! We also transplanted basil, parsley, and other types of tomatoes. We now have plants in three classrooms Mrs. Jaques’, Ms. Reed’s, and Mrs. Gates’. Everyone had a job and everyone was busy. Ariele wrote for tags for the plants while everyone else transplanted. I, Kristen, wrote this entry.
Here is a tip for all you gardeners, if you break a stem the plant will have no future. That’s why when we took the plants apart, we had to pull the leaves or the bottom. Do not pull the stems!
Everyone is working hard and we just got some more soil! We have got a lot of plants in their new homes!  That’s what we did today! And remember, Mother Earth needs you!

April 8, Meeting 3

Today we planted 4 varieties of marigolds.  We also started 9 American Chestnut trees. Marigold seeds and chestnut seedlings were donated by Mr. Neil Lash.  Some things that have sprouted already are: radishes, 2 varieties of basil, shallots, 2 varieties of chives, and oregano.  Our next meeting will be Monday April 14th 2-3pm.  Until then….keep watering!!