Monday 24 June 2013
Wednesday 19 June 2013
The Great Potato Harvest
June 18 every class who had planted potatoes came out to harvest. Organized chaos! The tubs were dumped out, potatoes gathered, counted and weighed. The results put on a beautiful chart, created by our UBC Education Practicum Students.
This year yields were low - approximately 25kg, of mainly small potatoes. There were a number of probably reasons - poor soil, growing conditions, watering issues, weather issues, and timing - a few more weeks and the crop would have been much better. Catriona Gordon from SPEC often says that one of the greatest challenges for the school garden program is the short growing season of September to June.
Still the potatoes will taste great roasted up by parent volunteers for the harvest festival on Thursday June 20.
This year yields were low - approximately 25kg, of mainly small potatoes. There were a number of probably reasons - poor soil, growing conditions, watering issues, weather issues, and timing - a few more weeks and the crop would have been much better. Catriona Gordon from SPEC often says that one of the greatest challenges for the school garden program is the short growing season of September to June.
Still the potatoes will taste great roasted up by parent volunteers for the harvest festival on Thursday June 20.
Garlic Harvest
On June 5, Green School, and the UBC Practicum Students harvested most of the garlic. The crop was great, big juicy bulbs, which were headed for the kitchen to be made into delicious garlic bread by Claudio and his team, for the upcoming harvest fest.
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