July 6th - Another foggy morning full of surprises!

It's only been a week or so and it's amazing to see the changes going on in the garden. More flowers are blooming and everything is getting taller. The compost bins were getting visited by a unknown critter, so they were moved to the asphalt area by the garden shed. This will prevent critters from digging under them and it opens another walkway into the garden. Our compost is looking good! We should have enough home-made compost to replenish our beds this fall! Our worms are doing exceptionally well, too!

Wouldn't it be great if we could compost all of our lunch and snack leftovers from the whole school?


The corn in the preschool bed is up to about 3 1/2 feet tall. There isn't any silk yet, but when we see some we'll have to hand pollinate it to get corn to eat. Stay tuned!

A whole bunch of these large poppies have come up this week, in pink, red and white. The look like Icelandic Poppies, but I think they're Wooly Poppies. I'll try keying them out to be sure, but in the meantime, they're gorgeous!

It looks like what I though was a pumpkin is really a zuchinni in the Pre-school bed. This one just appeared over the course of 3 days!

And those mystery plants in what I thought was the 4th or 5th grade bed are now looking like sunflowers. There are also some potatoes planted in this bed! Okay, which class planted sunflowers and potatoes? Let me know so I can give you credit. They look great! I wonder if the potatoes will taste like the ones we get in the store?

The cosmos are busy attracting butterflies and bumble bees, as are the poppies. We actually have a few white poppies as well as the gold ones.

The small, white flower mixed in with the poppies is a different type of baby's breath. It's so beautiful mixed in with the other flowers.

Does anybody know what this red flower is? It's about the size of a nickel and has single flowers on branching stems. It was part of the wildflower mix we planted but I haven't been able to identify it yet. I'll keep trying, but if you have any ideas, let me know!

The lupine is almost done now, and I've started collecting the seed pods to dry so we can plant them next year. The rest of the flowers are going great guns, with new ones showing up every day (or maybe I'm just seeing news ones everyday).

Who knows what I'll see tomorrow or next week! Stay tuned!

God bless and I'll see you in the garden!

Ms. G.