Today, we had our fifth Garden Club Meeting. Having organized the club but unavailable
until today because of my own academic schedule, it was a thrill to be able to
meet the gardeners face to face. The
experience was an amazing one, because I had been worried that the scholars
would not find passion in gardening; however, the moment I got there I could
tell how excited they were to plant. First they checked the water level (using
the rain catcher we had installed prior) and the temperature. It was 76 degrees
Fahrenheit and there was a little less than two inches of water in the rain
catcher. We taught the gardeners about
the advantages of planting dill in a garden: dill is a natural, pesticide-free,
way to ward off pests. While some planted the dill, others helped create
homemade wind chimes, and another helped me thin the radish seedlings. At this
point there are no carrots to be thinned, hopefully next week there will be
some greenery poking out.
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