Garden Group

I worked on November 20, 2013 with Claire, Gaby, Zeke, Koltyn and Brannon. The observations I made initially before we started to work was that the entire area was covered with little, hard to pull out weeds. I worked on taking out all of the weeds in my assigned section with a metal rake. I also threw out some weeds. My group accomplished taking most of the weeds on the side left of Mrs. R's section and watering that area as well. I think that the next group should continue to work on deweeding and start planting some more seeds in the trenches. We should use the harvest as food for the cafeteria.

Garden Work Group 4 Claire November 20

I worked with my group on November 20. The whole place was surrounded with little weeds in the trenches and around the trenches. We worked on getting the little weeds out in our designated areas. At first Gaby and I were using the little tools to get the weeds out individually but, then we realized that that wasn't working so we switched to the big tools and that was so much faster. In the beginning I worked on watering the whole garden. The next group should work on keeping the weeds out and planting more plants in the trenches.
-Claire

Garden Group 4 on November 20

Today, I worked on the garden with Claire, Austin, Brannon, Zeke and Koltyn. Claire watered the area before we all started to weed. The boys just went and "attacked" the weeds, not pulling them out one by one. Claire and I were pulling them out one by one until we gave up after 10 minutes and did what the boys were doing. Not all of the garden was weeded but majority of it was weeded. The next group should finish off the weeding and maybe plant more plants in the garden. 

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Gardening

I worked on November 19, 2013. When i came to the garden, the ground was already wet. I individually removed the weeds that were around the plants. The soil was moist enough for me to pull out the mushrooms and extra weeds. After that, i observed the piles of sugar cane branches. I immediately put them into the trash, as well as the dead leaves behind it. The next group should continue to water and pull weeds. We should also continue to plant as much as we can. With the harvest, we should make pumpkin pie.

Garden group

This past Wednesday I watered the garden, and I help change the dirt and put paper for the worms. The plants are starting to grow and the trenches are getting better. I watered it to keep the dirt soft and to let all the new plants grow. I also cleaned the buckets for the worms. I took the dirt out of the very top bucket and I put paper scrapes into the bucket. I had to dampen the paper and put a layer of about 5 inches. In a couple of weeks the garden should be nice and the plants that we are growing should be good.

I worked on the garden with Gaby and Clair on October 30th. The garden had a lot of trenches in it but not very many plants, except for Ms. R's trenches, they had a lot of pumkins.  I watered the ground to soften it up while Gaby and Clair pulled weeds and planted some pumkins.  Our group acclompished digging a trench in Ms. R's area, deweeding a large area, and, planting one bell pepper and one pumpkin. The next group should plant some more plants and fortify the trenches. I think we should donate the next harvest to Hale Kau Kau so the homeless who get food there can have some fresh vegatables.

I worked on the garden with Laura, Megan, Grant, and Keoni.. During this time, we dug trenches for our future plants. As we were digging, the dirt was dry, rocky which made it hard to make the trenches, even when we watered it.

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Garden Work on October 30

Last week Wednesday on October 30, I worked in the garden with Austin and Claire. Austin watered the garden while Claire and I were pulling weeds. We then received an assignment from Mrs. R to build a trench for the bell peppers and so we did that after weeding. After that was finished, Claire and I planted a pumpkin plant/seed into one of our trenches. That was all we did. Next week, we should plant more plants into our trenches so that our garden wouldn't look so bare.

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Garden work Oct. 30

I worked on last Wednesday with Gaby and Austin. Austin watered while Gaby and I pulled weeds that were in the trenches and also around other plants. I planted a pumpkin plant into one of the trenches. We also dug a trench for Mrs. R and planted a pepper plant.

October 23, 2013

I worked in the garden on October 23, with Grant, Soraya, Megan, Chandlette, and Laura. There where other trenches already made by Ms. Delima's class. The ground looked dry and needed to be watered. First, Megan watered the ground and the surrounding plants. Second, Grant and I began to dig trenches for the plants, while the others got out the gardening tools. Next week, we should water the plants and soil some more and start planting.