ANASTASIA’S GARDEN
PROFILE
I want to work at the garden because: It gives me an opportunity to help the community and learn more about plants/gardening.
Two of my personal goals for working at the Dallas Youth Garden this summer are:
1. learning and knowing all about gardening.
2. helping my community as much as I possibly can.
Two things I hope to learn from working at the Dallas Youth Garden are:
1. how to prevent weeds from almost never growing in the garden better.
2. how much water certain plants need and when to use seeds instead of a transplant.
I think my biggest challenge will be: keeping weeds and everything else under control
My favorite vegetable or fruit is: raspberries
I hope to contribute this to the garden this year: my best effort and friendliness
GARDEN PLAN
Vegetables and Flowers Planted (list in order):
Marigold
Marigold
Tomato
Tomato
carrots
carrots
onion
onion
pepper
pepper
yellow straight squash
yellow straight squash
zucchini
zucchini
cabbage
beans
crookneck squash
Rows of vegetables planted: 15
Number of different kinds of vegetables planted: 8
Planned Garden Yield: 394 lbs
Planned Biggest Producer: Squash
GARDEN PROJECTS
1. Food Assistance Visit
Date Attended:
What did I help with:
What were people like:
What I learned:
2. Resipe
Name: Squash bread
Ingredients: 1 cup Sugar, ¼ cup oil, 1 ½ cups flour, ½ tsp baking soda, 2 ½ tsp cinnamon, ½ tsp vanilla, 1 egg, 1 ½ cp grated squash, ¼ tsp baking powder, ½ tsp salt, ¼ tsp nutmeg
Steps to Make it: mix all the ingredients in a medium to large bowl together, preheat oven to 325 F and grease loaf pan, bake for about an hour.
3. Recipe
Name: scrambled eggs with veggies and toast
Ingredients: Sweet bell pepper, eggs, squash/zucchini, and toast
Steps to Make it: get a clean pan, knife, cutting board, cut up your veggies, scramble your eggs in a small bowl and mix in veggies, turn the stove on a low-medium heat, cook until eggs are fully cooked, toast your bread, get a clean plate with silverware, plate the eggs and veggies with toast on the side. (make coffee if wanted)
4. Google Info Project
Name/Topic: What is Cheese Weed and is it safe to have in your garden?
Why This Is Important: People should know if it is safe or not when/if they come across it especially in their garden.
Summary: It is relatively safe to have in your garden but, it is recommended to get rid of it so it doesn’t take over your garden and kill your plants. However it does have medical benefits and can be good for you, just don’t consume too much.
Link to the website I got info from: Malva neglecta: Identification, Health Benefits, Uses, Invasive Concerns, and Pet Safety
Link to my slideshow: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ECdiMT7nLJKgYQgnYuMMxQiR2zO8pogF-C-0fo1rOo8/edit?usp=sharing
GARDEN LOG:
May 2-7: Just started. Met in the garden and then garden planning using Zoom.
May 9-15: Helped Clean up Plant Sale. Garden planning zoom meetings. Cleaned up tools
May 16-22: Started planning garden and planting. getting to know one another.
May 23-20: planting and getting to know one another more.
May 30-June 4: continued planting and prepped for laying straw down.
June 8-12: laying straw down.
June 13-17: laying down straw
June 18-22: Laying down straw (I was in San Diego visiting my brother)
June 23-27: finished laying down straw
June 28-July 3: weeding plants
July 4-8: weeding plants
July 9-13: watered, weeded, and had a small celebration for laying all the mulch down in June.
July 14-18: watered and weeded
July 19-23: harvested, watered, and weeded
July 24-28: harvested, watered, weeded, and put down bark on the walkways
July 29-August 1: harvested, watered, weeded, and had our open house
August 2-6: optional day/bonus day on Tuesday, watered, and harvested
August 7-11: watered, weeded, and harvested
August 12-16: watered, weeded, harvested, and had a cook off
August 17-21: watered, weeded, harvested
August 22-26: watered, weeded, harvested, evaluations
August 27-31: harvested, played a budgeting game, and took stuff home for recipes
September 1-5: harvested, and didn’t need to water a bunch because of heavy rain, and going to start getting ready for the end of season
September 6-10: pulling out plants that are dead/not producing, watered for the last time, had an end of season party, pulled hoses
September 11-15: continued pulling plants and harvested
September 16-20:
September 21-25:
MONTHLY GARDEN SUMMARY
May: Days Worked 11 Days Off 2 Extra Days Worked 0 Days Late 2
June: Days Worked 9 Days Off 4 Extra Days Worked 0 Days Late 1
July: Days Worked 9 Days Off 4 Extra Days Worked 0 Days Late 0
August: Days Worked 9 Days Off 3 Extra Days Worked 1 Days Late 1
September: Days Worked _____ Days Off _____ Extra Days Worked _____ Days Late______