Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Gardens, gardens, GARDENS!

As many of you know Super Snack Lady helps out with as many gardens as she can during the summer months.  She is heavily involved in the Gather and Grow Friendship Garden located right next to Johnson School of the Arts and is also involved with the Garfield Garden when needed.  Check out the photos below of fun events that have taken place around the gardens along with some of the progress that is being made!

The Garfield Garden is famous!  Well, at least the dietician
who helps with it is.  On the left is Linda Ashley the
Hy-Vee dietician who helps with the garden and she is
pictured with Tiffany O'Donnell (red dress) and Corey
Christiansen (white shirt).  Hy-Vee even had a
grill out for Garfield families and interviewed the principal,
Joy Long about the garden.  How cool!

Here is Linda Ashley, the dietician, pictured at the actual
garden talking to girl scouts about healthy eating
choices that can come from the garden.

While their snack was cooking the girl scouts put together
a compost corral which will be used to make their very own
compost for their garden!  At the end of their snack
they put their paper plates and watermelon
rinds in the compost corral.

It takes lots of team work, and a Master Gardener,
to put together a compost corral.  All you need is
wooden pallets and some zip ties.  Very easy!

Ta da!  You can't see the corral, but it's there!  Thanks
Phil for helping us put it together and teaching us
what all we can put in it!

Welcome to the Gather and Grow Friendship Garden
at Johnson School of the Arts! 

The sunflowers are in full bloom and are looking
great on this summer day.

Watermelon or pumpkin?  It's kind of hard to tell!

Marissa is at a loss while trying to figure out where
to start with the vines that took over the garden.
The vines were burying other plants and needed
to be moved but it was such a mess that we had to
call in a backup helper- a Master Gardener from
the ISU Extension Office!

Baby, tiny pepper plants! 
 

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