CaptainFox's+Garden+Journal+adventure

This is my first Wiki ever!!! . Every Tuesday in the Amigos School, we went to the Garden to help out Liz (the garden counselor) And Asia (Her assistant). We had 4 groups. The Biologists, the garden Maintenance, the Composers, and the food preservation group. This is a Wiki of all the garden journals (also known as GJs). You will find it an incredible adventure. My group has mariocart7, barbiieboricuaa, and last but not least AfricanPrincess. lferhani my teacher is in charge of the biologists and the compost group.

Garden Journal #1

A first for me today was looking up close at a sunflower. A sight I will remember is the sight of a couple of broken up mushrooms. I will remember the pine bushes textures. A sound I will remember all of the bees buzzing around the sun flowers. A scent I will remember is the scent of the sunflowers.My group and I all had different ideas of what to write down. We had to compromise and decide what to write down. When we saw the mushed up mushrooms we where all disgusted. We took notes on biotic and abiotic objects. We also took notes on the garden ecosystem (sun, water, shade,O2 or oxygen, CO2 or carbon dioxide, and soil)

Garden Journal#3 I never have picked up a slug or a centipede before. I will remember the slugs trying to escape from the jars. I will remember the slugs sliminess. I will remember every one exclaiming when I caught a huge centipede. I will remember the scent of the compost bins.We worked as a team because half of us worked at the oxidation crank while the other half tried to find "beasties". We all worked at the crank to get the soil rich in nutrients. My group and I had to shred leaves of what I think was a [|bitter sweet plant] (a plant choker/strangler). In the end we lost the [|daddy long-legs spider] that was so very hard to corner.

Garden Journal#4 A first for me today was planting garlic. I will remember every one concentrating on planting. I will remember the slimy garlic bulb. I will remember the sound of the shovels in the dirt. I will remember the smell of the garlic.We where all working together to get the garlic planted. We had to coordinate so we wouldn't dig up the cloves. We had a limited amount of space seeing as we planted them with the tomatillos. Using coordination we where able to complete the planting.

Garden Journal#5 A first for me today was seeing a new born snail and tasting [|lemon balm tea.] I will remember the smell of the mint plant. I will remember the smooth surface of the eggplant that I found. I will remember the murder of crows (like a school of fish or a flock of sparrows) as they watched us with their beady eyes. I will remember the taste the lemon balm tea.We also found a rainbow leaf. We worked hard to find the producers, decomposers, and the consumers seeing as they where scarce or microscopic. The decomposer group did us a favor to help us find a couple decomposers. We had fun as our 2nd time as biologists. I thank the harvesters for the tea but I don't want to taste smoked basil again (the Lemon balm tea).

Garden Journal#6 A first for me today was mushing the apples and then pressing them. A sight I will remember is the apple mush. A sound I will remember is the sound of the apples being mushed. A touch I will remember is the freezing water flowing over my skin. I will remember the smell of the [|apple cider]. A taste I will remember is the taste of the best apple cider ever!

Garden Journal#7 We (the composers) had a hard time because we had to help Liz to put the compost back into the container. During that progress we found 5 [|centipedes], 2 isopods, and a spider that the maintenance group found. We only had one container so we had to put the spider in with the centipedes and... they ended up in a war (centipedes VS. spider). The spider bit all of the centipedes at least once and one centipede bit the spider and it got paralyzed by the centipede venom! it was the excitement of the day but as every one crowded around I got pushed out so I went to work. And I was the one that made the group finish it's work!

On the last day there where 2 maintenance groups, 1 composting group and 1 food preservation group. I was in maintenance1 along with Hawkman22, and doggielover101, also in my group was mariocart7.

To read a book review about Decomposers, click here

P.S. The first 2 weeks the harvesters picked things to take home.