Angleworms are GOOD for the garden

Well, it’s been a week since our hard frost, and we still have things to do in the garden. Today we invited any of the 4^th graders that wanted to work with our volunteers to come into the garden during their morning recess time. Mrs. W. had lots of company and helpers. Here is her report:

The kids were sure busy this morning. I was able to teach them:

1. Angle worms are good for the garden. It lets you know you have healthy soil so don't take them out of the garden.

2. Showed them the little cabbages developing on the cabbage plants, and how you get them.

3. Whenever taking plants out of the garden, make sure you shake the soil off the roots into the garden.

Just a few things to harvest today.

• One purple cabbage head that weighs 2 ¼ pounds
• 1 beet
• 4 radishes
• One carrot -- we’ll pull the rest of the carrots next week.

One of the sunflower roots was left out to dry off in the garden. The tomato vines are just waiting to be pulled out and destroyed because of the problems we had with spotting leaves and blossom end rot.

Our compost corner is growing. The flowers look wonderful thanks to being covered up before the frost, they are still going strong.