Garden Volunteer Helpful Hints
Hello! Thank you for helping Garfield’s garden grow!
Some info to know about the garden:
Garden log - please find this little yellow book and sign in when you come to care for the garden.
Tools - you probably don’t need anything more than your bare hands and a little muscle but if you choose to, you can bring some gloves, weeding tools and/or kitchen snips for harvesting herbs. If it’s harvest time, bring something to carry your veggies home.
Watering - custodial staff will be watering once a week. We are not sure which day(s) yet but will send a note out when we do.
Try to water deep enough to reach the plant roots, it will help the plants make it through the really hot and dry days.
Turning the water on - There is a round, metal faucet handle that needs to be attached to the faucet to turn on the water. The handle will be located in a white 5 gal bucket near the garden. The actual faucet is at the front of Garfield facing Broadway (go through the chain-link gate)
Weeding - If you aren’t entirely sure if it’s a weed or something we’d like to keep, leave it and observe it next time. If it looks just like something that is growing on the path around the beds, it is probably a weed! Most of the plants should be labeled.
Here is the list of everything that has been planted:
Garden Beds:
Kindergarten: marigolds, squash, sunflowers
First: sunflowers and peas
Second: tomatoes, green peppers, mint,
mustard greens and basil
Third: tomatoes, green peppers, mint, chives
Fourth: (not sure as of this moment what is planted)
Fifth: lavender, borage (flower) and tomatoes
Sixth: tomatoes, peppers, hot peppers, variety of herbs
VI Classroom: lavender, mint, oregano, basil
Harvest Tips:
Harvesting won’t probably be for at least a month, although a small bit of the herbs can probably be snipped within the next few weeks.
Generally speaking, if it comes off easily with only a gentle tug (tomatoes) then it’s ready to be harvested. For lettuce/mustard greens; a few individual leaves (outermost) can be torn off the plant while leaving the rest intact and root in the ground to grow some more.
There may be more updates as we move through the summer. In the garden log are some emergency contacts if you need help or have questions or are concerned about something going on.
Thank you! Enjoy your garden time!
- Garfield Garden Committee
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