Breaking News!!!!



Here is this season's planting map!



 Everything looks good so far this season. The different classes have planted, and only a few plants have died. The biggest problems are watering AND pesky mice, birds, and squirrels. We have done our best to keep them out, but they are still coming in! You would think that the deer would be a problem, but we asked our parent who is in charge of the garden, Mrs.Paull. She said, "The deer don't bother the plants as they are mostly behind fences or deer netting. Still, we have one bed that the deer could get to, but it’s planted it with garlic, onions and such. They shouldn't want to eat that." We have plants that are watered and growing while there is nothing for them to eat right now in the forest, but still, onions are pretty gross! We fertilize with compost every week, we water once a week, and the next two weeks in the garden we will be weeding, thinning and hopefully mulching. We have put most of this up on our garden button on the FTE website at http://goo.gl/Yro8e . The garden calendar, the class schedules and the weekly newsletter are located there.

We have many volunteers that work the garden each week, so there are a lot of people making it work!!!

That's all for today. See you next time!

Battle in the Backyard



The Epicness



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Hello and welcome to THE BACKYARD BASH! In this corner we have the red, the spotted, the LADYBUG! And the challenger the pesky, the puny, APHIDS! First some background on our fighters. The Ladybugs were poor liittle orpans that were found in the forest and grew up down the fighting path. The Aphids on the other hand were arrested 2 times for illegal crop eating and took up fighting for fun. Now that we are ready...

Let's get ready rumbllllllllle!
Out numbered 14 to 2 the Ladybugs decided to make the first move. Ladybug 2 quickly eats Aphids 5,8, and 9! Ohh! Ladybug 1 just ate every Aphid except for Aphid 14, how ironic! That's the last of them! Ladybug 2 just ate Aphid 14. This has been the Backyard Bash at the FTE Garden, see you next time!

A Good Start!

Ever since the school has re-planted the winter crops, the plants have gotten a good start. The school has been using water bottles with holes at the top, giving the baby plants water. We have been doing that for a while, and as a reward, we found a sweet potato ready for harvest! That should give us extra food for a Thanksgiving Feast!

Watering "Cans"?

Recently the kindergarteners & 1st graders have been using
a new technique to water the plants. They have been using
plastic water bottles with little holes poked on the top, so they
won't kill the plants by over watering and smash the smaller plants. The mice and drought have done enough damage we don't need anymore plants dying!