Everyone answered three questions: What do you want to learn about in the garden?, How should we treat our garden?, and How should we treat each other in the garden?. Our answers will be compiled into our Club Pledge, which we'll review next week.
(Garden Club members answering our Pledge Questions)
Then we discussed transplants and how to carefully and efficiently transplant starts. With our new garden partners, we transplanted Cabbage, Mustard Greens and Corn Salad so that we'll have some fall vegetables growing in our garden!
(Elena and Sam transplanting Cabbage)
(Simon and Alec transplanting Mustard greens)
(Transplanting fall vegetable starts)
(Sean and Watson transplanting Cabbage)
Then we discussed Seed Saving and inspected two plants in our garden that have mature seeds ready for harvest: Calendula and Sunflower. We harvested seed heads and sat in the shade processing our seeds. Next week, we'll package some seeds for planting in the spring and we'll get to taste some of the sunflower seeds once they've been roasted and salted!
(Elinor processing sunflower seeds)
(Alec and Simon hard at work)
(Elena and her sunflower seeds)
(Everyone finishing up our day preparing seeds)