So we haven’t been diligent in updating this blog this year. With the upheaval and ever-changing date of moving into the new building, there just wasn’t much time. Our efforts to keep everyone in the know of our Horticulture Club’s goings on was basically short Tweets on Twitter.
Last fall the greenhouse was kept in survival mode, awaiting a moving date. Luckily, the plants got to stay for the first semester and students had a chance to tend to mature plants and sow some new ones. Very little was done outside at the old building in the fall.
With the move came the realization that we no longer had our beloved greenhouse. With a small grant from the SCDSB Environmental Investment Program (EIP), and fundraised club funds, we purchased a Tower Garden in February. A few hiccups along the way with permissions to plug it in meant we were delayed until after March Break from getting seeds in the rock wool. Once we were fully functional, we set the Tower Garden up in the Library Learning Commons and had much success! We grew daisies, wildflowers, arugula, Bibb lettuce, spinach, and basil. We even had a lunch meeting where we picked our produce and made a salad with it for all to eat! It was super fresh!
Now that summer is here (is it, though?) and the old school is soon to be fenced off, we have managed to move a number of the plants from the old school gardens to the new. On a rainy Saturday afternoon, Mrs. Cadeau and Mrs. Bumstead moved all of the hostas to the new school – and they are thriving! A week later, Mrs. Beeler and Mrs. Cadeau were back at it moving bleeding hearts and periwinkle. Our hope is to get the tulip bulbs that were planted by the Vimy 2010 students moved over in the next few days. It is so exciting starting fresh with a new space and getting to plan its future!
Enjoy your gardens this summer, but don’t work too hard!
