JODI’S GARDEN

PROFILE

I want to work at the garden because: I have worked there before, and I thought it was fun, and a good opportunity.

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

1. Try not to lose any plants

2. Make new friends

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

1. New ways to continue sustainable gardening

2. Effective ways of caring for plants.

I think my biggest challenge will be: Keeping up on weeding

My favorite vegetable or fruit is: Cauliflower

I hope to contribute this to the garden this year:

 GARDEN PLAN

Vegetables and Flowers Planted (list in order):

  1. Marigolds

  2. Acorn Squash

  3. Radishes

  4. Golden Zucchini

  5. Beans

  6. Cabbage

  7. Tomatoes

  8. Carrots

  9. Onions

  10. Peppers

  11. Tomatoes

  12. Cabbage

  13. Zinnias

  14. Butternut Squash

  15. Dill

Rows of vegetables planted: 12

Number of different kinds of vegetables planted: 10

Planned Garden Yield: 450 lbs

Planned Biggest Producer: Cabbage

GARDEN LOG

  • May 2-6: Got oriented with others, learned names and talked about garden rules an expectations again

  • May 8-13: Garden plans, went over them on zoom, worked on them together and on our own

  • May 15-20 Planting started, got quite a few rows done. Had a friend come in with me on Saturday, we planted 6 rows, prepping the seventh

  • May 22-27: More planting, almost finished with garden

  • May 29-June 3: Finished planting garden, finished all labels, helped other interns, and we started weeding

  • June 5-10- Almost lost a pepper plant but it is regrowing, same with tomato. Weeding, starting straw

  • June 12-17: Weeding, added fence posts for beans, picking radishes Saturday.

  • June 19-24: Weeding, all radishes harvested, lots of straw.

  • June 26-July 1: More weeding, fish fertilizer on transplants, more straw.

  • July 3-8: Finished straw, starting to get a lot of zucchini from my plants

  • July 10-15: 13.5 pounds of zuchs just on Tuesday and Thursday! Saturday is expected to have a lot too.

  • July 17-22- weeding, lots of picking, I was absent Saturday

  • July 24-29- Lots and lots of picking, gone this Saturday too

  • July 31- Aug 5- lots of picking, minimal weeding and there’s an open house on Saturday!

  • Aug 7-12 - Lots of picking and weeding this week, good produce production!

  • Aug 14-19 - Holy picking! Tons of food produced this week.

  • Aug 21-26 - 54 pounds of tomatoes? From my own garden? That’s great! More picking

  • Aug 28- Sep 2- Garden reviews and more picking.

  • Sep 4-9 - More reviews, and we have the end party this Saturday!

Final Thoughts:


My favorite garden vegetable was: Radishes
Because: I liked how pretty they were this year
I harvested 423.4 pounds of produce from my garden.
My favorite job was: Watering
My least favorite job was: Weeding
I could have done better at: Weeding and updating my website
I did the best I could doing: Watering
The two things I learned most at the garden this year were:
1. To try and manage enough time to update my website
2. Staying focused helps

GARDEN PROJECTS

1.Project One

Question/Problem(s) Proposed: How do plants rebuild and/or heal themselves?

Answer(s) I found: Cells can mend the wall of the plant and the inside of the stalk, by bonding and creating a new wall.

URL Reference: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3198324/

2. Recipe

Name: Zucchini pasta with homemade pesto

Vegetable Used: Zucchini

Ingredients: Zucchini (julienned), seasoning of choice, pesto sauce (basil, nutmeg, garlic, olive oil, etc.)

Steps to Make it: Fry up the Julienned Zucchini, season it, put the sauce in. Add a meat of choice or eat alone

Opinion: It was delicious!

3. Another Project

Problem: Why are food banks important?

Solution: Food banks are important because peopel in need of food are able to get nutritious meal for themselves and family!

Test/Activity: We went to the town resource center and got to pack a food box for someone.

Results: He was extremely grateful and excited to be given something he was in need of

Communication: Food banks can save the day, and help tons of people in need.

MONTHLY GARDEN SUMMARY

May: Days Worked: 11 Days Off: 0 Extra Days Worked: 0 Days Late: 0 Total Produce(Pounds): 0

June: Days Worked 13 Days Off: 0 Extra Days Worked: 2 Days Late: 0 Total Produce(Pounds): 2.1

July: Days Worked: 11 Days Off: 1 Extra Days Worked: 1 Days Late: 0 Total Produce(Pounds): 54.7

August: Days Worked: 11 Days Off: 3 Extra Days Worked: 1 Days Late: 0 Total Produce(Pounds): 243.6

September: Days Worked: 4 so far Days Off: 0 Extra Days Worked: 0 Days Late: 0 Total Produce(Pounds): unknown until end of month. 36 pounds so far.