Spring in the Garden

Our garden has many beautiful things growing and blooming! We are trying to plant and harvest before the end of the school year because our garden is being relocated for the fall. We look forward to seeing our new garden in September!

LEAVES!

One of the very last jobs for the garden before winter is to spread out the leaves which were brought to us by Jamie Lewis from Extreme Landscaping who is always willing to lend a hand with the Davis School Garden.

We spread the leaves into the PATHWAYS of the garden and leave the garden beds clear.  We do this so we can find the garden beds again in the spring and add fresh compost to them to make them ready for planting.  And we spread leaves in the pathways to keep the weeds from growing up there during the spring and summer.

If anyone wants to help I am leaving my wheel barrows and pitch fork by the compost bin.  Families, teachers & kids are all welcome to come help spread a few leaves.

Be careful not to step in the garden beds (where the irrigation tapes are) and not to wheel barrow over them.  Try to stay on the pathways.

THANKS!
Meighan

Harvesting potatoes

Hi everyone!

What a fun fall it's been!  Here are some of my photos from a wonderful potato harvest day with Ms. Kimball-Dorey's class.

Still Blooming!

Many flowers are still blooming in our Davis Garden! Teachers, feel free to cut a few to brighten up your classroom. Classrooms can also think about planting flower bulbs now that will come up in the spring. Bulbs that can be planted in the fall are: tulips, daffodils, crocus, narcissus and many others. If you want to do some fall planting we have people who can help!

Produce donations for the needy

The Davis Garden continues to produce abundantly through the summer when school is out of session.  This year, some teachers kept their garden rows growing into the fall for their students in September to enjoy and some neighbors used the garden to grow their own vegetables.  With the remaining rows, we grew an assortment of veggies for donation.  Most of the food went to Gaining Ground, a nonprofit farm in Concord which distributes produce to multiple local sites and to the Pine Street Inn homeless shelter in Boston.  One of the places Gaining Ground brings the fresh vegetables every week is to our own food pantry in Bedford.

This season we have donated a total of 200 pounds of produce so far!  This includes 127 pounds of potatoes dug by Mrs. Kimball-Dorey's class!!  Here's a picture of my kids (Phineas & Willa) with the potatoes at the Gaining Ground pavilion.  Above them is just one of the many car-loads of kale we donated this season.  Other food donated so far includes lettuce, radishes, beets, summer squash and zucchini.

Mrs. Marino was the photographer of these beautiful pictures of our amazing garden! She and her daughter Kate visited the garden and had fun exploring and capturing it for us to enjoy!

Autumn in the Garden