It was a great week in the garden last week! Phyte club had a great business meeting, finished our winter sowing and cold moist stratifying, and got our chamomile and kale started under grow lights next to our sprouting spinach. We won't meet on the 16th due to President's Day, but will start back on Feb 23rd. Hope to see you there!

It was a great week in the garden this week! Phyte Club started our Winter Sowing Project, where we create pocket gardens with native plants that will be up and growing by spring. Pocket gardens, along with individual native plants will be available in May. We also snacked on some great salad made with the lettuce from the aquaponic system students made last semester.  We won't meet on January 19th, but will meet again on the 26th, when we will continue with winter sowing along with starting our spinach and pepper seeds and announcing our new look for the agricultural area. 

It was a great week in the garden this week! Phyte Club did some garden clean up and raked leaves. We continued our planning meeting, and we had our Garlic Bread date-- eating ten loaves of garlic bread made with the garlic we grew in the garden. Next week, we will prepare for chili supper by making chili and baking cookies. 

It was a great week in the garden this week! Phyte Club got the rest of the carrots, sweet potatoes and other lingering produce out of the garden. We also discussed our priorities and started making plans for next year. And we wrapped up our Beyond Backyards grant with Franklin County Soil and Water. Our Food Forest is complete for now.  Next week, we will continue to talk about those plans as well as continue garden clean up as weather permits. 

It was a great week in the garden this week! Phyte Club did not meet last week, but Treehuggers got the raspberries installed in the food forest during class, and Teen Eco-Summit met to work on project ideas.  Next week, we will harvest all the sweet potatoes, carrots and onions that we can despite the cold. We will also spend some time indoors making plans for our winter activities. 

It was a great week in the garden this week!  We cleaned out the shed, harvested some late crops, processed garlic and seeds, and got the sunchokes tucked into their new home. We held our annual Plant your Pumpkin event at the Worthington Farmers Market and added some new members to the Phyte Club Team.

It was a great week in the garden this week! Treehuggers installed the orchard portion of the native food forest-- including persimmon, pawpaw and elderberry, among others. They will add raspberries next week before that area settles down for winter. Phyte Club got all of the garlic planted and installed the row covers on two of the beds. Next week, we will harvest sweet potatoes and onions, start some radishes under the row covers and clean out the shed in preparation for the winter. 

It was a great week in the garden this week! Treehuggers finished building our fence-- though there are a few finishing touches to put on the gates. We finished adding soil to the border bed, got the garlic sorted, cleaned up the pathways and flattened the ground for the new sunflower bed. Next week will be a heavy planting week, with food forest installation and garlic planting, as well as getting the row covers up over the winter crops. 

It was a great week in the garden this week! We filled in the south border bed, finished harvesting the gourds, pumpkins and cherry tomatoes, cleaned up the fruit area, cleaned out the greenhouse and worked on our watering system. Treehuggers got the stakes put up for our deer fencing around the native food forest. Next week, we will finish adding soil to the new border bed, sort and plant the garlic, smooth the back pathway and continue fall clean up. Treehuggers will get the fencing finished on Tuesday, so we can plant the food forest the following week.