Winter Sowing & Pickling Cucumbers
We can’t wait until we can start our summer garden! In preparation, we started seeds in milk jugs and seeds snails and already see some seedlings emerging. While we wait for warmer weather to plant outdoors, we are happily growing herbs in our classroom hydroponics unit. We used our fresh dill to pickle cucumbers and enjoyed eating crispy, delicious pickles.
June Garden
In June, students harvested lettuce, chives, and snow peas from the garden. We planted sweet potatoes, white potatoes, eggplant, a variety of tomatoes and peppers, herbs, sugar baby watermelon, green beans, cucamelons, and some flowers.
New Year, New Garden Beds!
Our kindergarten students helped to clean out our garden beds and plant our new plants that were generously donated to our school!
Getting Ready for Our Summer Garden
We are growing banana peppers, sweetie tomatoes, purple Cherokee tomatoes, eggplant, lemon basil, and Italian basil in our hydroponics units that will be moved outside to our garden next month. Flowers in our milk jugs are getting big. Snow peas and spinach are growing, and our chives are in bloom!
Spring Awakening in March: The flower seeds students planted outside in milk jugs, in Feb. have sprouted. Lettuce and snow pea seeds planted this month are sprouting in the garden. Our chives are back and looking great!
November & December Sweet Potatoes
The warm weather we had in November allowed us to keep our sweet potatoes in their grow bag for longer than we originally planned. The largest purple sweet potato we grew weighed a whopping 3.6 pounds!
End of Season Update:
While the garden season is coming to a close, we still have bell peppers, swiss chard and sweet peppers growing beautifully! Our melons and tomatoes had a great season, and we can’t wait to plant them again next season!
| Here are the final pictures of our vegetables. We still have flowers, but the cold is upon us. |
Chair, Environmental Commission:
The Roselle Park Community Garden is having another successful growing season! From cucumbers to berries, peppers to eggplants, we’ve been able to distribute well over 100lbs of fresh organic produce to residents. And our rented plots continue to reflect the enthusiasm and creativity of our Borough!
Our garden is in full swing!
