El 13 de junio en la huerta

I (Profe Anny) made my first summer visit to 'la huerta' yesterday and found lots of exciting things happening there. Here's what it looked like before my son Sam came by and trimmed all the pathways.



¡Gracias, Sam!

Kinder (soon to be Grado 1): ¡Las zanahorias crecen!

Una por una, las zanahorias aparecen entre los tomates y las cebollas de Grado 4/5. (The carrots just have tiny feathery leaves right now, but they are ready to start growing bigger in the shadow of the tomato plants, among the onions planted by 4th grade for their 5th grade salsa garden!)

Grado 1 (soon to be Grado 2): ¡El maíz crece!

Dos plantas crecen juntas (Two plants are growing together).

Profe Anny quita una planta. (The corn will grow better if we thin the plants, so Profe Anny pulled up the extra ones. She tried planting them in empty spots-- we'll see whether it works better than it did for Carlos!)

Grado 2 (soon to be Grado 3): ¡Los frijoles crecen! 

Hay un problema... ¡El conejo come las plantas! (If it's not a rabbit, it may be a deer-- just the plants on the outside edge of the garden had been nibbled on. We'll have to get the fence up soon...)

Grado 3 (soon to be Grado 4): ¡Las papas crecen! 

Las papas de las niñas crecen bien y las papas de los niños crecen bien. ¡Todas crecen fantásticamente! (Next time I'll bring some straw so we can cover the potato plants as they grow and make room for more papas to form.)

See the potato plant that 'volunteered' in the tomato garden this year? It's on the left, outside the cage in the next picture. I had to move it over to the 'papas' beds, because I found out 'tomates' and 'papas' don't like to grow together. Keeping fingers crossed that it will transplant safely.

Grado 4 (soon to be Grado 5): ¡La salsa crece! 

Los tomates crecen bien. Los pimientos crecen bien. (I had to replant the jalapeños and the sweet peppers. The ají is doing great.) 

¡El maíz de Oliver crece bien!

El cilantro forma las semillas. (The seeds of cilantro can be replanted, or ground as coriander powder. We use it in our 'gallo pinto' recipe in 3rd grade.)

El conejo comió el perejil de Profe Kim... (I think the bunny missed one parsley plant back under the cilantro.)

La melisa (lemon balm) y la menta crecen bién!

Kinder Garden:

Maya and Emma came to weed the Kinder Garden with T. Courtney.

Please come visit 'la huerta' and watch it grow this summer. I hope to be there once a week to weed and water. Let me know if you would like to join me.

¡Hasta la vista!

Profe Anny

Anny.Ewing@Westtown.edu