CLAIRE’S GARDEN

PROFILE

I want to work at the garden because:

Two of my personal goals for working at the Dallas Youth Garden this summer are:

1. I want to work and learn from people who like gardening as well.

2. I would like to be better at time management.

Two things I hope to learn from working at the Dallas Youth Garden are:

  1. I hope I learn more about job skills in a working environment.

2. I want to get better gardening skills.

I think my biggest challenge will be: I think that keeping up with weeding will be one of my biggest challenges.

My favorite vegetable or fruit is: Carrot

I hope to contribute this to the garden this year: I hope I can help others and keep my garden healthy.

 GARDEN PLAN

Vegetables and Flowers Planted (list in order):

  1. Marigold

  2. Tomato

  3. Tomato

  4. Carrot

  5. Beans

  6. Yellow Squash

  7. Zucchini

  8. Zucchini

  9. Dill

  10. Lettuce

  11. Lettuce

  12. Pepper

  13. Pepper

  14. Acorn Squash

  15. Onion

  16. Beets

Rows of vegetables planted: 16

Number of different kinds of vegetables planted: 13

Planned Garden Yield: —332 pounds

Planned Biggest Producer: Zucchini

GARDEN LOG

  • May 2-6:

  • May 8-13:

  • May 15-20 Planting

  • May 22-27: Replanting

  • May 29-3 June: I watered and finished planting.

  • June 6-10: I watered my garden and started weeding for the first time.

  • June 12-17: I continued weeding, we started putting hay down and I got my sign put up.

  • June 20-24: I weeded so we can continue putting straw down and waters my garden.

  • June 27-1 July: I weeded a bit and watered my garden.

  • July 4-8: We finished putting done hay and I watered.

  • July 11-15: I watered, picked zucchini’s and did some weeding.

  • July 18-22: I harvested zucchini’s, weeded and watered.

  • July 22-29: I harvested, weeded and watered.

  • July 30-5 August: I weeded, watered and harvested.

  • August 6-12: I harvested and watered.

  • August 13-19: I watered and picked.

  • August 20-26: I watered, weeded and watered.

  • August 27-2 September: I watered and picked.

  • September 2-9: I watered and picked.

  • September 9-16: I picked and watered.

  • September 16-23: I watered and picked

Final Thoughts:


My favorite garden vegetable was: Beans
Because: I like beans the best because it was fun to pick them.
I harvested __306__ pounds of produce from my garden.
My favorite job was: Picking
My least favorite job was: Watering
I could have done better at: I could have showed up more and worked harder.
I did the best I could doing: I tried my best to pick everything I needed to.
The two things I learned most at the garden this year were:
1. Working with a team
2. Gardening

GARDEN PROJECTS

2. Resipe

Name: Salad

Vegetable Used: Squash

Ingredients: squash, spinach and ranch

Steps to Make it: You get the ingredients, cut the squash and then throw everything in a bowl.

Opinion: I added to much ranch but the squash reminds me of the texture of potatoes.

Organic Fertilizer

What are organic fertilizers ? Organic fertilizers are fertilizers produced naturally.

How are they different from non-organic? Non-organic fertilizer helps the plants growing in the soil while organic fertilizer feeds the soil. Non-organic fertilizers can be made of ammonium, phosphate and potassium.

What are some examples of an organic fertilizers? Some examples of organic fertilizer are manure, compost, blood meal, bone meal, boi fertilizer ect.

Academy date worked: 8/25/23

Primary tasks performed: I helped out with giving people food.

What does the resource center do: The resource center helps people with their basic needs by offering them supplies, emergency financial assistance, and information & referrals in convenient places.

What was the best thing about your visit?: My favorite part was learning what the Academy did and how they helped people.

MONTHLY GARDEN SUMMARY

May: Days Worked _____ Days Off __0__ Extra Days Worked ___0__ Days Late____0___ Total Produce(Pounds):__0_

June: Days Worked ___12__ Days Off ___0__ Extra Days Worked __1___ Days Late____0___ TotaProduce(Pounds):__0__

July: Days Worked ___11__ Days Off __2___ Extra Days Worked _____ Days Late____0___ Total Produce(Pounds):_137_

August: Days Worked __13___ Days Off ___2__ Extra Days Worked _____ Days Late___0____ Total Produce(Pounds):__23__

September: Days Worked ___12__ Days Off _____ Extra Days Worked _____ Days Late_______ Total Produce(Pounds):__146__