It has been a great couple of weeks in the garden! We finished harvesting 514 pounds of tomatoes as part of our research project with OSU. We also finished up our cucumber, squash and pepper harvests. At current count, we have grown 1318.5 pounds of produce this year!   We fixed up the fairy garden and planted a cover crop in the food forest. We have so much more to do, though! This week, we will work to get our potatoes harvested and our garlic planted. In addition, we are hosting a garden clean up day on October 24th from 9 a.m. to noon! Volunteers are needed to clean up the urban agriculture beds, weed and mulch the labyrinth and other clean up projects. No need to RSVP, just show up and help!  

It was a great week in the garden this week! We worked on all of our projects: tagging monarchs, painting edge boards, applying gravel to the labyrinth and harvesting tomatoes. We were so lucky to have the Worthington Partnership Green Team come and help us clean up the weeds in the labyrinth last week, but there is more to do in the labyrinth this week. We finished painting and sealing our first set of edge boards and will place those soon. With the temperature dropping, we will probably do our last big harvests this week, including more tomatoes and the big pumpkins. We have harvested just over 800 pounds so far, so this might be the week we meet our goal!

It was a great week in the garden this week! We tagged and released monarch butterflies, collected seeds from the natives bed, painted edging boards, worked with the Green Team to maintain the labyrinth, collected data for our OSU tomato project, fed compost to our sawfly larva and harvested over 100 pounds of food for the Worthington Resource Pantry. Next week, we will continue to construct our compost row, clean up the labyrinth, get the natives bed ready for fall and harvest, harvest, harvest. We are on our way to 1,000 pounds! 

It was a great week in the garden this week! We made great progress in the herb garden, planted and protected our corn and cucumbers, got the tomato beds ready for planting in mid-May, revamped the vermicompost, installed the strawberry towers and rescued our native plants from drowning in the rains. Next week, we will clean up the labyrinth, trouble shoot the irrigation system and maybe even plant some beans.

It was a great week in the garden this week! Phyte Club got a lot of weeding done, continued working on pathways, rescued many native seedlings, and much more. Earth Day activities included planting lettuces, chamomile and lavender, remaking one of the garden beds, and making major progress on the fruit area. The Teen Eco Summit group wowed everyone at the Zoo with their progress on recycling plastic into yarn. And Olive Wojonowski led a citizen scientist Bioblitz with iNaturalist in conjunction with the Worthington Green Team. Next week, we will finish the strawberry tower construction and plant the strawberries, organize and plant in the herb garden, plant the corn and cucumbers, and finish the irrigation system. 

It was a great week in the garden this week! The heroes of Phyte Club moved 100 bags of mulch, as well as rebuilding the Fruit Area fencing, finishing the potato tower, and getting a lot of work done on our pathways. Next week, we will focus on irrigation systems. native plants, and finishing the pathway work.

It was a great week in the garden this week! We worked on rebuilding the paths in our new garden bed, potted up some native plants that are growing fast, built a potato tower, built some pea trellises, worked on our plastic recycling project and added some pizzazz to our fairy garden. Next week, we will do more work on our paths, develop our beds, tend to our peas and kale, and pot up a bunch more native plants

It was a great week in the garden this week!  We did some major garden clean up, put up a trellis gateway in the food forest, and started many native plants. Next time, we will do whatever prep work we can do to get ready for our Interim Garden Glow Up and try to keep all our new seedlings alive!

It was a great week in the garden this week! We started doing our prep work for our Interim Glow Up, cleaning out the urban agriculture area and planning out several projects. In addition, we helped out teen eco-summit by working on transforming our post consumer plastic into strands that we can spin into yarn. Next week, we will try to do some more preparation in the urban agriculture area if the weather lets us, but we will focus on potting up our kale seedlings and starting some other seeds. 8 weeks to last frost!