Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Jack Frost coming to visit our garden tonight

Frost warnings are posted for the entire region, so it’s time to make a final harvest. It’s a really windy day, fall is definitely in the air.

Several 4th graders set to work filling four red tubs and one cardboard box with the following:

  • 16 radishes
  • 3 giant Marconi peppers
  • 14 Chinese bell peppers
  • 38½ pounds of green pear tomatoes and “regular” tomatoes.
  • 8 cucumbers

A grand total of 46¾ pounds were harvested from the garden beds today.

We’ve only been back in school for one week. Students were just starting to enjoy going to the garden during their recess to see what had changed.

Now most of that will be over for this season.

Also cut down were the sunflowers, but not before kids got one last chance to enjoy looking up at them and posing for photos.

Kids, can you believe how tall these sunflowers you planted, watered and carefully measured have grown? They’re lots taller than you are! We forgot to take a final measurement, but see how they extend over the top of the fence line?

It will be sad to see them come down. But our art teacher wants to use the sunflowers for a special project in her classroom. We look forward to enjoying them in a new way.


This garden project produced over 100 pounds of produce. We counted up to 300 separate vegetables that were harvested, but so many tomatoes made up this final harvest that we lost count.

Just how many pear tomatoes are there in 13 ½ pounds? What about all those green tomatoes? They weighed 25 pounds, but how many were there? Lots!


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