NJ's Veggie Patch: Week 1

It's Monday, July 28th. The summer is flying by and already half over. Apologies for the infrequent updates.

The summer has been unusually wet and slightly on the cooler side of normal for Canada's capital in June and July.

There are tons of photos of the garden now but it seems more dramatic to do a quick recap of where things started back in early July.

So without any further adieu, here is a recap and update of the Norman Johnston school garden project from week #1...

 
 End of June - raised beds were completed by an amazing group of students in the wood shop class and by the incredibly amazing teacher, Shamus. It was time for the soil to go in.

 With the effort and help from a group of student/staff/custodial volunteers, the soil went into the raised beds in record time. A big thanks to McKeown Contracting and Big Yellow Bag for their help with the soil.



After all the seedlings went into the beds on day 1, we were left with the start of a very lovely garden that looked like this:


After a week of sun and some tender loving care from all of the garden volunteers, our NJ garden was looking more like this:


We even had some zucchinis starting to really take shape:

That's where we left things at the end of the first week.

Check back for the next post soon.

Until next time...