Hawkman22's+GJ+2011


 * __Garden Experiences (GJ's)__**

Hi am "Hawkman22". I am a student that goes to the [|Amigos School]. We visited the garden every Tuesday and wrote about what happened. The person that is in charge of the garden works in CitySprouts named Liz. We would work with her and Asia her assistant. There are four groups" Harvest"," Compost"," Biologist" and" Maintenance" group. In the Harvest group we would cook something. Enjoy reading my Garden Journals.

Garden Experience 1 A first for me is when I saw an [|Isopod] in the compost. They are roly-polies. It’s a decomposer. They brake down dead material. I will remember seeing many [|slugs] that are different sizes. Many were very large. I think the largest slug was about four inches long. A texture I will remember is the very unique spiral the snails have. It was like looking at an art piece. A sound I will remember is when a [|centipede] was hitting the container it was put in because it wanted to get out. After looking at it, we put it back into it’s home. The compost. I will remember the smell of rich soil. It probably had a lot of nutrients since there are many decomposers in it. I learned that many things that live in soil and they’re very important.

Garden Experience 2 This was my first time ever working maintenance. In the group you support the plants, producers grow. A wonderful sight that I will remember is when I saw [|earthworms] popping their heads out the rich soil. A texture I will remember is when my group opened up a sunflower. We found a white fluffy thing that felt like cotton. It transfers the water from the roots. A sound I will remember is when the stem of the sunflower broke when we were pulling it out. A smell I will remember is the smell of fresh, dark soil coming from everything surrounding me. We were removing the sunflowers because they were blocking the sunlight that needs to hit other plants, and because we needed to collect the seeds. Garden Experience 3 A first for me is when I spotted a grasshopper jumping in between producers. A texture I will remember is the spectacular design of a unique spider web. A sound I will remember is the leaves being pushed by the wind. I will remember the smell of fresh potatoes being cooked on the grill by Dr.Lu2345.I will remember the unique taste of cooked potatoes. Both soft and crunchy. I have never eaten food made by classmates.

Garden Experience 4 An interesting sight I will remember is the grinded corn that looked like powder. A texture I will remember is the hardness of kernels from the corn. A sound is when I was grinding the corn kernels. A wonderful smell I will remember is the scent of fresh tomatoes. An amazing taste I will remember is the taste of juicy tomatoes. Something that was interesting about the corn is that the cob was red. Garden Experience 5 A first for me is that I finally got to find an ant in the compost. It’s been four weeks that no one has found an ant. An amazing sight I will remember is that I got to see a baby snail on an adult snail. I was very surprised. A sound I will remember was a leaf, getting crushed in the soil by the different variety of organisms. Something I could feel was a slug sliding on my hand. It left a track of gooey slime. Something I could smell was the horrible scent of rotten fruit in the compost. A taste I will remember is the tea the harvest group made. Garden Experience 6 A first for me is that I found Earthworm eggs inside the dark soil. An amazing sight for me is spotting a blue Earthworm in the soil. I think it’s because of the soil and sunlight. A sound I will remember is when the harvesters were cutting juicy apples. A texture I will remember is the softness of the soil. A smell I will remember is the scent of fresh soil. A wonderful taste I will remember is the apple cider the harvesters made. Garden Experience 7 This week I was in the biologist group with fluffypanda1 and freakyowl1. We worked on a question sheet that asked about different producers and consumers in the garden. The decomposer group found a spider and five centipedes. The spider and centipedes were fighting each other. It was an amazing sight. The spider froze sometimes, I didn’t know if it was pretending to be dead or if it was stunned.

Garden Experience 8 This time I was in the harvest group with fluffypanda1, freakyowl1 and goldface2. We made a wonderful salad. We needed to put plants in the salad. The person that did this job was fluffypanda1. The job was that you need to cut plants the teacher told you to cut. The people that were cutting apples and radishes are freakyowl1 and goldface2. I used a recipe book to make the dressing that gave the salad a unique taste. I used mustard, Olive oil, and vinegar. I didn’t know that the salad would be so tasty. We really enjoyed making the salad. Everyone ate in a short period of time.

Garden Experience 9 At our final class in the garden I was in the maintenance 1 group. This time a the garden we didn’t have a biologist group, we had two maintenance groups. We didn’t have the same partners. Our groups were all mixed up. I was working with doggielover101, Captainfox324 and mariokart7. Captainfox324, mariokart7 and I were raking pine needles and leafs from the floor to put in the beds. The person that was sweeping the leafs and pine needles off the steps was doggielover101. It looks boring, but I had a lot of fun.

Garden Experience 2 This was my first time ever working maintenance. In the group you support the plants, producers grow. A wonderful sight that I will remember is when I saw worms popping their heads out the rich soil. A texture I will remember is when my group opened up a sunflower. We found a white fluffy thing that felt like cotton. It transfers the water from the roots. A sound I will remember is when the stem of the sunflower broke when we were pulling it out. A smell I will remember is the smell of fresh, dark soil coming from everything surrounding me. We were removing the sunflowers because they were blocking the sunlight that needs to hit other plants, and because we needed to collect the seeds.