JODI’S GARDEN

PROFILE

I want to work at the garden because: It’s great work experience and I enjoy gardening and the atmosphere!

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

  1. To get to know all of the other interns

  2. To grow something new

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

  1. How to better interact with coworkers

  2. Self Advocacy

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: A smile and someone who is easy to talk to

 GARDEN PLAN

Vegetables and Flowers Planted (list in order):

  1. Zinnias

  2. Acorn Squash

  3. Radishes

  4. Zucchini

  5. Beans

  6. Cabbage

  7. Tomatoes

  8. Carrots

  9. Onions

  10. Peppers

  11. Tomatoes

  12. Cabbage

  13. Marigolds

  14. Butternut Squash

  15. Dill

  16. Pumpkins

  17. Pattypans

Rows of vegetables planted: 17

Number of different kinds of vegetables planted: 14

Planned Garden Yield: — 380

Planned Biggest Producer: cabbage

Changes in my plan during planting: added one eggplant

GARDEN LOG

  • May 2-4: Met everyone, orientation

  • May 7-12: Picked Gardens

  • May 14-19: Planting and watering

  • May 20-25: More planting!!

  • May 26-31: Finished up planting and watering

  • June 1-5: Watering and Weeding

  • June 6-11: Watering and weeding, picking shirt patterns

  • June 12-17: Watering and weeding like usual, finished straw

  • June 18-23: Watering, weeding, fish fertilizer!

  • June 24-29: Watering and weeding, first projects presented. Bark chips started

  • June 30 - July 5: watering, weeding, bark chips finished, more projects presented

  • July 6-12 - more projects presented, finished up, lots of weeding

  • July 13-19 - Harvested small things, nothing big yet. More weeding

  • July 20-26 - Really hot, hard to weed. Lots of water

  • July 27- Aug 2 - Harvesting started! Not watering

  • Aug 3-9 - Not present due to Polk County Fair

  • Aug 10-16 - Not present, gone to Canada

  • Aug 17-23 - Dog show off work, then lot of harvesting begins!

  • Aug 24-30 - Lots of beans, tomatoes, onions, and squash!

  • Aug 31- Sep 6 - Picked anything with color, lots of watering due to heat levels

  • Sep 8th- Closing Party

Final Thoughts:


My favorite garden vegetable was: pumpkins!
Because: they were all so pretty :)
I harvested _____ pounds of produce from my garden.
My favorite job was: weeding
My least favorite job was: watering
I could have done better at: weeding
I did the best I could doing: weeding
The two things I learned most at the garden this year were:
1. Weed lots!
2. Be kind, heat can make us grumpy

GARDEN PROJECTS

1.Project One

Question/Problem(s) Proposed: What is the purpose of fish fertilizer?

Answer(s) I found: All-natural fish fertilizers are processed differently in the soil, because they contain nutrients that must first be digested by organisms, such as bacteria, earthworms and fungi, before they are available for plant roots to use.2 All of this microbial activity enhances the strength and vigor of plants by increasing the amount of organic matter in the soil.

URL Reference: https://www.pennington.com/all-products/fertilizer/resources/what-is-fish-fertilizer#:~:text=As%20fish%20fertilizer%20improves%20soil,nutrients%20of%20phosphorus%20and%20potassium.

2. Recipe

Name: Pico De Gallo

Vegetable Used: Tomatoes

Ingredients: 3 lb Tomatoes, onion to taste, jalepeño to taste, cumin to taste

Steps to Make it: sweat diced tomatoes, then add rest of ingredients diced, then cumin

Opinion: absolutely delicious

3. Another Project

Problem: Bottom Rot

Solution: The plant is lacking calcium, therefore calcium additives helps the plant keep from suffering from bottom rot

Test/Activity: add a calcium additive to your problem tomato plant

Results: Bottom rot was eviscerated

URL Reference: My grandmother

MONTHLY GARDEN SUMMARY

May: Days Worked _____ Days Off _____ Extra Days Worked ____ Days Late_______ Total Produce(Pounds):____

June: Days Worked _____ Days Off _____ Extra Days Worked _____ Days Late_______ Total Produce(Pounds):__

July: Days Worked _____ Days Off _____ Extra Days Worked _____ Days Late______ Total Produce(Pounds):____

August: Days Worked _____ Days Off _____ Extra Days Worked _____ Days Late_______ Total Produce(Pounds):___

September: Days Worked ____ Days Off _____ Extra Days Worked _____ Days Late______ Total Produce(Pounds):____