SAMANTHA/SAM2’S GARDEN
PROFILE
I want to work at the garden because: I love gardening, and I love exploring new things.
Two of my personal goals for working at the Dallas Youth Garden this summer are:
1. To plant as much vegetables and flowers as I can.
2. And to not kill any of my plants.
Two things I hope to learn from working at the Dallas Youth Garden are:
1. How to grow vegetables, because I have never grown any.
2. How to keep my plants alive.
I think my biggest challenge will be: digging the trenches for the seeds
My favorite vegetable or fruit is: my favorite fruit is strawberries
I hope to contribute this to the garden this year:
By, helping out and getting what I need to do done. And to ask questions if I need to, taking care of my garden.
GARDEN PLAN
Vegetables and Flowers Planted (list in order):
Zinnia
Cabbage
Pumpkins
Carrots
Onions
Peppers
Beets
Tomato
Marigolds
Zucchini
Lettuce
Pole Beans
Acorn Squash
Crookneck Squash
Butternut Squash
Peppers
Rows of vegetables planted: 11
Number of different kinds of vegetables planted: 13
Planned Garden Yield: 307
Planned Biggest Producer: Squash is my planned biggest producer.
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: Planted stuff in my garden. Watered as I went
May 23-20 : continued and finished planting things in my garden.
May 30-June 4: started to work with hay, and watered my garden.
June 8-12: finished planting in my garden, watered my plants and continued to spread hay with my workmates.
June 13-20: Continued spreading hay, and laying down paper and newspaper.
June 23-30: finished spreading hay, watered plants and picked off flowers. Also weeded a lot from my garden.
July 2-10: picking flowers, vegetables. Watered plants, and weeded more.
July 11-17: picked Vegetables (lettuce and squash), picked flowers off of the squash and tomatoes. Watered plants and weeded around my plants.
July 18-24: did more watering, and weeding. Picked flowers from squash and pumpkins.
July 24-30: Picked flowers from pumpkins and squash. Watered and weeded my garden. Didn't have any vegetables to pick. Squash is to small to be picked right now, have to wait for them to grow bigger.
July 30-August 7: I watered my plants, and weeded and harvested.
August 7-August 14: weeded. Watered and made sure that there wasn't any flowers on my squash and pumpkins.
August 14- August 21: watered, weeded and harvested
August 21- August 28: weeded, watered. Harvested all the plants that needed it.
August 21 - September 4: weeded, whacked plants and watered my plants. Harvested my squash and beans and other vegetables that needed harvested.
September 4-September 11: harvested and watered plants. Whacked any plants that needed it.
September 11-September 18: Had a last formal day party on the 12th.
September 18-September 25:
September 25-October 3:
GARDEN PROJECTS
1st project:
What I did for my project was, taking photos of my garden rows. I'm going to put them on a Google docs and type out what's a good thing about them. I'm gonna write down the names of each of the rows and then I'll email it to Claire to post on Instagram and wherever else it needs to be posted on. I would put the pictures but the website won't let me put pictures. So I'll just email it to Claire once I'm done with the project.
(Can't get the link on here, for right now for 1st project)
2nd project Recipe
Name: Squash Bread
Ingredients:
Butternut Squash
Baking Powder
Water
All Purpose Flour
Ground Cloves
Ground Cinnamon
Eggs
Table Salt
Vegetable Shortening
All purpose Flour
Granulated Sugar
Chopped Pecans or Raisins
Steps to Make it:
Step 1: preheat oven 350 degrees
Step 2: cook and mash 1 cup butternut squash
Step 3: in a large bowl, mix together 1.75 cups = one and three quarters cups all purpose flour, 1 cup sugar, 1 tsp baking powder, half tsp salt, half tsp cinnamon, and quarter tsp ground cloves.
Step 4: in another bowl, beat two eggs. Add 1/3 cup melted shortening, and add quarter cup water.
Step 5: combine wet and dry ingredients, fold in the mashed squash and half cup pecans or raisins.
Step 6: pour into grease loaf pan, and bake for 60 to 70 mins until tooth pick comes out clean. Let cool in pan for 10 to 15 mins in the pan before removing it. Then let it cool completely on a wire rack before slicing.
You can keep it at room temperature wrapped in plastic wrap or aluminum foil. Or you can store it in the refrigerator up to a week.
It turned out pretty good, it was a bit dry at first but the more I let it sit the more it tasted better.
3rd project another recipe:
Name: Sausage, pepper and onion hoagie
Ingredients:
3 quarters pound sweet Italian sausage
3 quarters pound hot Italian sausage
2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
2 large garlic cloves crushed
1 large onion thinly sliced
2 cubanelle peppers seeded and sliced
1 red bell pepper seeded and sliced
Salt and pepper
2 or 3 jarred hot cherry peppers or banana peppers chopped
3 tbsp hot pepper juice
4 crusty hoagie rolls
1 tbsp olive oil
3 tbsp butter
1 large garlic clove
½ tps dried italian seasoning
Salt and pepper
Steps to Make it:
Step 1: heating 2 tbsp olive oil, add sausages and cook them until brown on all sides
Step 2: remove sausages from skillet, setting them aside. Adding the crushed garlic and sliced onion to the same pan.
Step 3: cook garlic and onion for 2 mins until softened, then add all the peppers to the pan.
Step 4: season the peppers with salt and pepper, then cook everything for 5-7 mins until the peppers are tender.
Step 5: add the hot pepper juice to the pan, then return the sausages to the skillet and cook for 3-5 mins.
Step 6: Prepare hoagie rolls, mix 1 tbsp olive oil, 3 tbsp butter, 1 crushed garlic clove, ½ tsp dried Italian seasoning, brush this mixture on the rolls and toast them.
Step 7: serve the sausages and peppers on the toasted hoagie rolls. And enjoy.
It was really really good, the sausage was a little overcooked but overall it turned out really good. I made it with my mom and she made the sausage just right.
4. Public Presentation
Date: Rarly July to mid July.
Who I Presented To: The people around me (my work mates, helpers and my boss).
What I talked About: The names of my plants or rows of my garden and good things about the plants or cool little details.
How it went: I’m hoping it went very well.
What I learned : Nothing that I know of.
MONTHLY GARDEN SUMMARY
May: Days Worked 11 Days Off 0 Extra Days Worked 0 Days Late 0
June: Days Worked 13 Days Off 0 Extra Days Worked 0 Days Late 1
July: Days Worked 12 Days Off 0 Extra Days Worked 2 Days Late 0
August: Days Worked 12 Days Off 1 Extra Days Worked 2 Days Late 1
September: Days Worked 13 Days Off 0 Extra Days Worked 1 Days Late 0