RYLEIGH’S GARDEN
PROFILE
I want to work at the garden because: I enjoy the outdoors, i want to help our community, and learn new skills
Two of my personal goals for working at the Dallas Youth Garden this summer are:
I want to improve my skills when it comes to hands-on work.
learn a new recipe with the produce I have grown.
Two things I hope to learn from working at the Dallas Youth Garden are:
1. I want to learn how to manage and take care of plants properly so I can grow more at home.
2. I want to learn work ethic and what it is like to have a job.
I think my biggest challenge will be: managing the weeds in my garden
My favorite vegetable or fruit is: strawberries!!
I hope to contribute this to the garden this year: effort and kindness
GARDEN PLAN
Vegetables and Flowers Planted (list in order):
Marigolds
Lettuce
Tomato
Cabbage
Onion
Carrots
Zucchini 2x
Dill
Pepper
Crookneck squash
Radish
Pattypan
Tomato
Pole beans
Pumpkin
Rows of vegetables planted: 15
Number of different kinds of vegetables planted: 12
Planned Garden Yield: 376lbs
Planned Biggest Producer: zucchini
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 transplanting, adding more rows to my garden.
May 23-20 : made a few changes to my garden plan, continued planting and watering.
May 30-June 4: finished planting my garden, started weeding independently, made my garden sign, started placing paper and hay to gardens.
June 8-12: placing more hay, starting to manage weeds more and continued to water more.
June 15-20: continued with hay, checked my plants water level using the moisture meter.
June 22-27: finished up hay, continued weeding and watering.
June 29-July 4: continued watering and weeding, thoroughly weeded my row of onions
July 7-11: weeding and watering, harvested and weighed my zucchinis, party on Saturday.
July 14-18: harvested more zucchini, lettuce and patty pans. learned about bloodmeal, calcium nitrate and other things used for gardening.
July 20-25: harvested lettuce, zucchini, and crookneck squash. placed bark dust on our paths and learned what sustainable gardening is.
July 28 - August 1: harvested squash, pods began to grow on beans, pumpkins are getting bigger, peppers are starting to grow.
August 4 - 8: harvested more squash, peppers growing bigger. pumpkins started to turn orange.
August 11 - 15: beans are growing big, harvested squash and peppers. won second place in the cook off.
August 18 - 22: harvested beans, cabbage and my first tomato. did self evaluations.
GARDEN PROJECTS
1. Recipe
Name: zucchini bread muffins
Ingredients: 3cups flour, 1tsp salt, 1tsp baking powder, tsp baking soda, 1tbsp ground cinnamon, 3 large eggs, 1cup vegetable oil, 1cup sugar, 1 cup brown sugar, 3tsp vanilla extract, 2cups shredded zuchini.
Steps to Make it: grease muffin pans and preheat oven to 325. sift flour, salt, baking soda, baking powder, and cinnamon in a large bowl. in a separate bowl, beat together eggs, oil, sugar, brown sugar, and vanilla then pour into the flour mixture. mix well then add shredded zucchini then mix again. pour into muffin pans and bake for 40-60 minutes. (I baked for 45min). cool for 20 minutes and enjoy!
2. Food Assistance Visit
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3. Education : Radishes
What are two common problems when planting radishes? planting too late and lack of thinning.
information found: lack of thinning radishes means that your radishes will not have the space they need to grow. this will result in underdevelopment of your radishes, leaving them to look like short cylinders rather than bulbs. this can also happen from being planted too late in the season. Radishes thrive in mild temperatures from 50-75 degrees. therefore, if radishes are planted later in the seasons as the temperatures are rising, they unfortunately will not grow as efficiently.
why is this important: this is important to know if you are planting radishes. you will know to plant them earlier on so they can thrive and to manage thinning, so your radishes have more room to grow. unfortunately, when growing my radishes, I made the mistake of planting them later on and not thinning as efficiently as I should have. when harvesting, i only managed to pick one decent radish as well as 3 underdeveloped radishes. now i know that if I want to plant radishes again, I must follow these expectations in order to have good results.
website citation: https://www.thespruce.com/radish-growing-problems-1402994
https://greenygardener.com/is-it-too-late-to-plant-radish-seeds/
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MONTHLY GARDEN SUMMARY
May: Days Worked __6__ Days Off __2__ Extra Days Worked __0__ Days Late__1___
June: Days Worked __12__ Days Off __1__ Extra Days Worked __1__ Days Late___0___
July: Days Worked __12__ Days Off __1__ Extra Days Worked __0__ Days Late__0___ 41.8lbs
August: Days Worked _____ Days Off _____ Extra Days Worked _____ Days Late______
September: Days Worked _____ Days Off _____ Extra Days Worked _____ Days Late______