Barb Bryant
Jun 15, 20202 min
This week, I thought it would be fun to take a look at which schools our participating youth are from.
Most of our students (115 out of 147) are in elementary school. We have 19 preschoolers!
There is a good distribution across schools. Preschoolers are from 9 different schools, with one home-schooled and a few that didn't specify a school. We see both public and private school representation. The elementary schools with the most students growing a plant in our program are MLK (19), Cambridgeport (18), Morse (11), Amigos (10), Graham & Parks (9), and King Open (8). We also have elementary school kids from BB&N, Fletcher-Maynard, Haggerty, ISB, Peabody, Shady Hill, St Peter's, Tobin, and home schooled.
There are a few of you who haven't selected a plant yet - see your email for information about how to do that. We still have pepper, tomato and squash plants, as well as some flowers. We may get basil in a couple weeks.
Now - on to this week's data!
Peppers and tomatoes are growing taller. We are seeing growth in the other categories as well: flowers, herbs, leafy greens, squash and eggplant.
Some observations:
Django, Sun Gold tomato ("Senor Sol Candy"): Crazy growing like a magic beanstalk to the sky, one little baby tomato on the way. (See photo below!)
William and Joanna, Brandywine tomato ("Sunny Tom"): More yellow flowers are opening. There are about 8 now.
Angel, Baron pepper: The plant is getting taller. it has grown more leaves. The new leaves grow from the top and start out small. There is a leaf at the bottom that is turning yellow. The new leaves at the top are smaller and a darker green.
Isaac, Striped German tomato ("Mr. Tomato Plant"): We have been watering it and put a cafe around it. It had three flowers.I like it because it's a plant.
Alex, Impatiens flower ("Eepa"): It's blooming! One pink bloom, two more buds
Sylvie, Lavender flower ("Emily"): We replanted in a bigger pot.
Hot Rod pepper ("Hotwheel"): We have a small pepper growing! And more than 10 flowers.