fluffypandasgardenexpirience

 This is my first wiki and its about my Garden Journals. At the garden there were 4 diffrent jobs. For example there was composting, haversters{food presevation}, biology, and maintnens. Every week we had a   different    job. One of my favorite jobs was harveting .In the harvest area, Asia was in charge of telling us what to do. In the Maintness Liz was in charge, in the compost and biology, Ms.Ferhani was in charge of telling us what were we going to do that day.

I was in group C. Hawkman22 and freakyowl1 were in my group. We were working in the [|City Sprouts] Garden. We were working at the Amigos School garden every Tuesday.

Garden Journal # 1 sp

When you do something new, you can get surprised by what you see, mostly in the garden. I’ve never seen before is so many organisms in a compost bin before. For example [|earth worms], spiders, [|isopods] , snails, and fruit flies. The slugs were the ones that really surprised me the most, because they were really fat. The slugs in the garden were the biggest slugs I have ever seen before. At the end of class the harvest group picked vegetables. They gave me a tomato, but it was yellow. I got surprised because I have never seen a yellow tomato. Today was my first time at the garden and I enjoyed it very much.

Garden Journal #2

Have you ever thought of what can a maintness group can do at a garden? I was the maintnes s group at the garden. There were 3 things I have never done before. First, pulling out the sunflowers out of the soil. Secondly, I have never before shoveled with a shovel in the garden. It was a very interesting experience using it. The shovels helped us take some of the roots of the sunflower because they were really stuck in the soil. The last thing I have never done before in my life was taking the seeds out the sunflower. I got to take some of the seeds home to eat them, they were really delicious. My experience in a maintness group was really great. Now do you want to be in this group?

There are many memories when you are hel ping someone. Me, for example, I have many memories when I was the maintenance group. I will remember the sights of…. when freakyowl1, Halk man and I were pulling out the sunflowers. The textures I can remember are the bumpiness of the sunflower seeds. When group C {my group}was taking them out of the sunflower.The sound I will remember is when the seeds were hitting the bottom of the bucket. I will remember the minty smell the herbs had. In conclusion, when you help someone, you will always have a memories of something awesome.

Garden Journal # 3

Biology is a great job to do at the garden because you can learn many things. Something I have never seen before was the fungi on a leaf it was really interesting seeing the fungi on the tree trunk and on the leaves. I learned that the fungus is a decomposer t hat decomposes dead things. Also discovering the garden on a nice day was really interesting because just by looking at a plant with a microscope you can see all the details. Today in biology I learned a lot.



Garden journal #4

Today was the first time I was in harvesting/ food preservation. We were making polenta. Polenta is a food that they eat in Italy. Something that I have never done before is grinding corn in a metal machine. Also I’ve never seen before is dried corn; they were really hard, but easy to pull off. I’ve tried polenta. I was salty, sweet, and a bit spicy. I really enjoyed m aking the polenta.

Have you ever tried polenta? I have!! This is what I can remember that you need to grind the corn into flower. A sound I will remember is when we were grinding corn to make the polenta. It sounded really hard. The tomato had a strong smell when the polenta was cooked. When I the polenta it tasted sweet, salty, and a bit spicy. When you’re cooking something you will always end up with memories.

Garden Journal #5

Don’t you think the organism s in a compost bin can do a lot for the plants and us? My group was working in compost for the second time. We were trying to identify different [|decomposers]. We could identify fruit flies, slugs, worms, spiders, isopods, and fungi. We noticed that there was less decomposers than when we had compost the first time, a month ago. Also I saw something interesting, that a small snail was on top a bigger snail. These organisms give nutrients to the soil, the plants receives it to grow healthier. It’s a cycle, that repeats over and over.

Garden Journal # 6

My group did maintenance today, for the last time. We were getting samples of the soil to check if it is healthy for the plants. "Hawk man" was in the strawberry section, "freaky owl" was were the herb section, and I was was the veggie section was, {garlic}. My contatainer was full fast. Hawk man and freaky owl got small scoops, but I g ot big scoops. Then Sarah told us that we needed to write about the soil. I wrote that the color was brown. I had many pebbles and rocks witch is abiotic, {natural}. I think my veggie soil is healthy for the plants. Maintnenss was a great job. I'm sad that I can't do it again.



**Maintness is a great job** to do in a garden that you can remember many things. I can remember that the soil was soft. I saw roots of a garlic that started to grow, pebbles and rocks. The garlic smell was re ally strong. That day the food preservation made apple cider for everyone. I enjoyed the cider. As you can see maintness group is a great job that I could remember many things.

**Garden Journal # 7**

What we did today at the garden was we were biologists. We were looking for producers and consumers. At first we were going to pick a producer and draw it. I picked the lavender. Hawk man and freaky owl said that they were going to pick different producers, but at the end we all ended picking the lavender. Later when we started to work. doughnuts4money found a spider that looked like a lobster. Cheeto30 wanted to pick it up with a tool, but she was scared. So I took it for her to the compost group. Then everyone was saying that there was 4 centipedess that were fighting with the spider that looked like a lobster. This is what my group did today.



Garden Journal #8

This time my group was harvesting. We were making salad. There were 3 jobs, picking herbs, cutting apples, and making the dressing. Hawk man was making the dressing, freaky owl was cutting the apples with gold face, and I was picking the herbs. Asia told me to pick arugula, lettuce, and edible flowers. When the salad was ready we needed to put them in small cups, for the class to eat it. I really enjoyed the salad and being in the garden, having the job of harvesting.

** Garden **** Journal # 9 **

Today I was composing the 3rd time. It felt interesting because I was not with my usual group mates. AfricanPrincess2332 and Cheeto30 was in my compost group today. We were getting soil from the bottom of the compost bin and putting it on the top to mix up the soil, and cut the stems into small pieces, to help the decomposer to break it down faster. There were 3 tools that we   used. Ms. Ferhani made us switch the tools every 7 min. In the last 2-3 min. of each tool Africanprincess2332 and Cheetos30 said "is it time to switch the tools?". There were 2 maintness groups. Maint. 2 was digging a hole next to the compost area and they found a fat worm; everyone wanted to see it. I liked it today at the garden because im the compost group didn’t need to fill out papers during garden time. I really enjoyed going to the garden. Each week we had different jobs, compost, maintenance, biology, and harvesting.



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