Hello Permaculture Fans!
The warmness of the sunny weather here in Dallas Texas has affected our garden in a very interesting manner. As you all may remember, we left in a few plants in our winter beds that are meant to be spring/summer plants. We kept the bell peppers, jalapenos, and banana peppers. We were expecting them to stop giving fruit or to die once winter season arrived and the cold winds of winter blew; but they never arrived. During our last meeting we discovered baby bell peppers growing in the middle of summer.
We have no problems with that and are actually very excited to be able to continue to pick more bell peppers in addition to our radishes and other winter plants.
In the next upcoming weeks we will be picking out some of the lettuce that is already coming up and hopefully very soon the peas. We are still waiting to see the progress that our broccoli, cauliflower, Kale, cabbage, and arugula make.
Our club members have been doing an amazing job keeping their eyes open and tending the garden. A few weeks back some of the club members discovered that our basil and oregano are having a bit of a hard time. The basil and the oregano both look down and kind of dry. In our next meeting we will be having our treasurer, Victoria Eastep, lead a research group in order to discover that we can do to bring our baby herbs back to life.
Another small problem that our garden detectives have discovered is that our system of doing the compost might not be the best system for our purposes. We will hopefully have more members look into that our next club meeting and have a new more productive system for when we return from the winter break.
Here is a picture of our club members Adesua and Sarah-Renee watering the garden during our last meeting.
In this picture co-president Vivian Nguyen and freshmen Sarah-Renee smile at the camera as they watch over Lexie, Katie, and Adesua thinning out the carrots.
Bailey Vertin and Vivian Nguyen after picking radishes and taking out the Marigolds that have died and replace them with stems of the ones still alive.
Thank you for stopping by and don't forget to come back for more updates on our progress!!!
Love, peace,and vegetables,
UA Permaculture Awareness Club
Here is a picture of Bailey Vertin who was brave enough to go underneath some ventilation in order to help clean out the garden and make space for our tools. Shout out to Bailey!!!
This past Monday we had an exciting meeting to which many of the our new recruits attended. We had a group led by our secretary Ana thin out the garden and pick some radishes and peppers. We have had two good harvests in the past month. Both times we got a good yield of radishes and were able to donate them to SAGE. With the first yield, SAGE made a delicious radish soup for Ursuline students and with the second yield this past week they made scrumptious radish chips.
Last Monday we also worked on another little project. Because every garden needs their own space to keep their tools; we cleaned out a small room that will serve as our tool shed/closet. It is a small room and we cleaned it out the most that we could in order to make space and make all of our tools accessible. Katie Boston organized all of the seeds that we have and placed them in a small container along with a list of our seed inventory. Meanwhile Lexie and Bailey helped clean out the closet and make space for all of our tools.
On to more amazing news; one of our members Lexie Saldana wrote an awesome article about the club on the Bear Facts webpage! Here is the link where you can read it:
