4-30-14
Today I worked in the garden with Megan, Jordynn, Chandlette, and Grant. We all took different sections of the main garden and started weeding. If you can see, all of our crops are growing very well. Unfortunately so are our weeds. We plan to tend our growing vegetation and weed so we may add more; such as cucumbers, squash, and cantaloupe.

Tiana's picture...April 16, 2014

On Wednesday April 16 I worked with Gaby, Claire, and Austin. When we first got to the garden I noticed that there was a lot of weeds everywhere. Gaby and Claire weeded by the compost and Austin and I  weeded in the garden. Towards the end we also cleaned up the sugar cane. The next group she continue weeding around these areas.

Austin

On April 16, 2014, I worked with Gabrielle, Claire, Tiana. I observed that the garden was pretty lacking in terms of weeds, except for around the plants. Individually I worked on pulling weeds from the ground in the general area around the crops, such as lettuce and spinach. My group accomplished weeding a large area of the garden along with picking and stripping dead leaves off of sugar cane. The next group should water the garden, pick more weeds and get more dead leaves from the sugar cane. We should take the harvest and feed it to cats that are around campus.

April 23, 2014

Today I had worked with Reina in our aquaponic garden.  The observations that was made prior to our work was that there had been seed that had been planted and hadn't sprouted any roots.  These seeds had been removed, and replaced with more seeds.  Together we had planted cucumbers, cantaloupe, and achillea 'moonshine' flowers.   The work that should be done by the next group, is that if these seeds begin sprouting roots that they should be replanted and placed into the garden outside.  The things we should do with the harvest is making a fruit salad with the bananas and cantaloupe, or grilling the cucumbers.

Garden blog for Mitchell

4-16-14 Garden Blog When I worked in the garden we pulled weeds all around the plants. These plants were cantaloupe and I believe some tomatoes and they were planted by the banana tree. I think that with the large selection of vegetables we may be very close to having our own salad bar without having to buy the actual produce.

April 16

  I worked April 16 with Gaby, Austin, and Tiana. Gaby and I worked on deweeding the compost area. The weeds there are really deep rooted, so I recommend getting a shovel and digging the weeds out by the root. Then, we worked need the sugar cane to remove the weeds. There's a lot of weeds there but be careful not to pick out the wrong things. I also recommend watering the whole garden.

Garden on April 16, 2014

Last Wednesday, I worked in the garden with Claire, Austin, and Tiana. We started off weeding the Compost area, then watering the compost bins and then moved to the actual garden area after. We weeded the areas near the sugar cane and cleaned up the dead sugar cane leaves. The garden really needed some care and helpful hands to look pretty and ready for planting again. Because of this, the next group should weed the garden and get more done than we did. 

Before

After

Watering the Compost bins

The garden area

April 9th

I worked on April 9th with Keoni and Mitchell. We started to weed out the area by the banana tree. Then we planted a cantaloupe and 5 watermelons, I think. The next group should weed under the black tarps and then dig a whole and put the black tarp in the whole and cover tarp with dirt so it is harder for the weeds to grow through the tarp.

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April 8, 2014

This Tuesday I had worked in the garden on April 8th, 2014.  The observations that I made before we had started was that there were a lot of weeds in the garden and a pile of dried up leaves by the sugar cane.  The individual work that I did was pulling out weeds near the banana tree, dumping dirty water from the vermiculture bins, and placing the  fish into the hydroponic garden.  The work the group did as a whole was working throughout the garden weeding specific areas, working in the vermiculture area, and working on the hydroponic garden.  The next group needs to weed.  We should make a salad with all of the lettuce grown.  

Last week Wednesday I worked in the garden to get rid of the invasion of weeds by the banana tree. I didn't completely clear the area, but I knew that the area will be later on used to plant watermelon and cantaloupe.

The next group should continue to weed out the weeds and clear the dead foliage from the sugar cane.

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 I worked on Tuesday the 8th of April. Before I started to work, I noticed that the garden was seemingly over-run with weeds. The ones that bothered me the most were the large, thorny ones by the papaya trees. I also knew that the hydroponics division needed some assistance. I could see that the food we planted was growing amazingly, especially the lettuce. Individually, I relocated seven fish from various tanks to the hydroponic tank. I also assisted dumping worm water into the garden. It stank so bad. After that was done, we weeded out the garden as much as possible. I got out all those thorny plants that were bugging me before and also weeded the area by the bananas. As a group, we accomplished a lot. We set up the ecosystem within the hydroponic tank. We cared for the worm division. We put some compost in the compost bin and weeded out several areas in the garden. We should make a fruit salad out of the watermelon that we're going to plant, the papayas, the strawberries, and the bananas when they bloom.

Garden group 4/9/14 Travis Delima

           This tuesday I did garden group. I worked on the compost and garden. Me and others put papaers and food scraps into the compost buckets. I almost threw up because of the smell.We had to put shreded paper in layers inside of the buckets and then put the food scraps on top of that then put another layer of paper. After we got through with that I went to the garden to pull weeds around the papaya tree. The weeds are getting really big so the next people that do garden group should pull weeds. 

Garden Work 4/8/14- Colin McGee

On April 8, 2014 I worked on the compost area and on weeding. The compost area was very smelly and we put the compost bin's content into the compost area's bins. We also put shredded paper into the compost bins. I also got to sweep all of the paper up. We pulled most of the weeds near the papaya trees to clear weeds for planting watermelons. The next group should weed more around the papaya trees and also plant the watermelon seeds. We should make a fruit salad or a regular salad with the harvest.