CHRIS’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. Learn how to keep plants alive

  2. Learn how to grow vegetables

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

  1. I want to learn how to grow garlic

  2. How to make a good garden for the best yield

I think my biggest challenge will be: keeping pests out

My favorite vegetable or fruit is: garlic

I hope to contribute this to the garden this year: ideas for new things to plant for the upcoming garden years

 GARDEN PLAN

Vegetables and Flowers Planted (list in order):

  1. Marigolds

  2. Lettuce

  3. Onion

  4. Cabbage

  5. Carrot

  6. Dill

  7. Butternut squash

  8. Zucchini

  9. Zucchini

  10. Pumpkin

  11. Tomatoes

  12. Carrot

  13. Peppers

  14. Tomatoes

  15. Onion

  16. Garlic/leeks

Rows of vegetables planted:15

Number of different kinds of vegetables planted: 12

Planned Garden Yield: 320 ish on a good harvest

Planned Biggest Producer: Zucchini

Changes in my plan during planting: moved Rows around

GARDEN LOG

  • May 1-3: getting ready to plant

  • May 4-10: planted first few rows (Flowers, Lettuce, Onions, Cabbage and Carrots)

  • May 11-17: planted next five rows (Dill, Butternut Squash, two rows of Zucchini and Pumpkins)

  • May 18-24: finished the last rows (Tomatoes, more Carrots, Sweet Peppers, more Tomatoes, more Onions and a mixed rows of garlic and leeks)

  • May 27-31 : pulled some weeds by hand then used a hand hoe to pull weeds

  • June 1-7: we putt down straw and I weeded and watered after

  • June 8-14: We put straw down and i weeded and watered

  • June 15-21: I weeded and watered and we put down straw

  • June 22-28: I weeded my carrots and dill and watered

  • July 1-12: I harvested half of my lettuce then watered and did some more weeding

  • July 14-21: I watered and harvested some zucchini then did some weeding

  • July 22-28: I watered and harvested more zucchini and did a lot of weeding

  • July-August 28-2: I watered and harvested my lettuce, green tomatoes and one onion then weeded quite a bit

  • August 2-9: I watered and weeded my plants and harvested some zucchini

Final Thoughts:


My favorite garden vegetable was:
Because:
I harvested _____ pounds of produce from my garden.
My favorite job was:
My least favorite job was:
I could have done better at:
I did the best I could doing:
The two things I learned most at the garden this year were:
1.
2.

GARDEN PROJECTS

1.Project One

Problem: how to prevent gopher

Answer(s) I found: by burying hardware cloth or wire mesh around gardens and individual plants to prevent gophers from tunneling underneath. Make sure the mesh extends at least a foot below the surface and a few inches above, or you can use strong smelling plants gophers dislike the smell of plants like lavender, rosemary, sage, and catmint. Euphorbia lathyris is known to be a natural repellent for gophers

URL Reference: https://www.gardendesign.com/how-to/gophers.html

2. Resipe

Name: zucchini bread

Vegetable Used: zucchini from the garden

Ingredients:

1 cup sugar

1/4 cup oil

1 1/2 cup flour

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1 egg

1 cup grated zucchini

1/4 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon nutmeg

Steps to Make it: preheat the oven to 325 and grease a loaf pan with butter or shorting and dust with flour then in a large bowl mix all the ingredients thoroughly

Opinion:

3. Another Project

Question/Problem(s) Proposed:

Answer(s) I found:

URL Reference:

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):____