Enjoy photos we've taken in the garden from Spring 2015. I'VE STARTED POSTING ALL PHOTOS ON THE GARDEN BLOG SO PLEASE CHECK THERE. If you have any to contribute, feel free to email them to jrkohn@gmail.com or text 858-349-7024 Thanks! Joelle Kohn
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Farmer's Market 9-25-15
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Farmer's Market - donations for fare 9-25-15
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Our first Farmer's Market at Monster Mash, 9-25-15
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PVGC gifts garden with $200 donation. Many thanks! 9-25-15
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Seasoned gardeners gave new gardeners some advice 9-25-15
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Nancy explaining genesis of garden 9-25-15
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Poway Valley Garden Club came to visit 9-25-15
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Garden Corps training with the Safari Singers! 9-25-15
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Packing romaine seeds. 9-24-15
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3rd grade basil harvesters. 9-24-15.
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Basil Harvesting for pesto! Mrs. BGH's 3rd graders. 9-24-15.
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Bug-hunters in action! 9-24-15
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Mrs. Baird explains composting 9-24-15
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Mrs. Baird's class observes 9-24-15
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More romaine lettuce seeds with Kids In Action 9-23-15
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Kids In Action packaging romaine lettuce seeds 9-23-15
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5th grade mathematicians measuring the garden 9-18-15
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Carrots harvested from the 5th grade box. 9-18-15
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Mrs. Lewis pulls the carrots. 9-18-15.
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5th Graders with Mrs. Lewis measure the garden to diagram for our grant. 9-18-15
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A happy bee collecting pollen from a squash blossom 9-18-15
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Mrs. Sevilla's 1st grade students harvest and taste green beans 9-17-15
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Cory found a caterpillar egg! 9-17-15
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Mrs. Chambers takes her 2nd graders to plant cauliflower 9-17-15
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Rainy day chores with these 3rd graders. 9-15-15
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The newest member of our garden, donated by Kalena's family! 9-14-15
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They found a praying mantis on the beans! 9-10-15
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2nd grade bug-hunters! 9-10-15
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Ms. Westmoreland's 2nd graders bug-hunting
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Slowly clearing out the 3rd grade box. 9-3-15
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2nd grade box all ready for planting. 9-3-15.
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Safari kids raking the front area 9-4-15
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Mrs. Bellinghiere Hall's class did a Service Project and moved wood chip mulch to cover the garden dirt area. Great Labor Day task! 9-4-15.
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Elizabeth Siemens and Deborah Tison help garden
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After school 9-2-15 earning gardening badge
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2nd grade box ready for planting! 9-2-15
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3rd grade box starting to get ready for Fall planting 9-2-15
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Harvest > snacks for teachers 8-27-15.
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Harvest 8-27-15
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Mrs. Bellinghiere Hall's 3rd grade class harvests 8-26-15
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Harvesting tomatoes 8-26-15
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Harvesting tomatoes 8-26-15
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Chloe Felix proudly holds a tomato she harvested 8-26-15
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Harvesting beans 8-26-15
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Harvesting beans 8-26-15
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Harvesting beans 8-26-15
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Harvesting beans 8-26-15
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8-25-15 Mrs. Hibbert's 3rd grade class goes to the garden to record observations
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8-25-15 Observations
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8-25-15 Observations
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8-25-15 Observations
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Another variety of pumpkin 8-26-15
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A pumpkin! 8-26-15
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Zucchini 8-25-15
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Spaghetti and Butternut Squash 8-25-15
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Cucumber! 8-25-15
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I found the culprit eating the sunflower leaves...this little yellow-breasted bird!
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Pretty cucumber vine 8-21-15
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Sunflowers planted on Earth Day popped up too! 8-21-15
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The 4th grade box of tomatoes and basil was especially impressive. 8-18-15.
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Families tour the garden 8-18-15 during Posting Party
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ESS students man the tasting table at the Posting Party, 8-18-15.
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Nancy Bellinghiere Hall, Subbu Venkateswaran, and Anna Araujo, 8-18-15
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Posting party: garden tours and tastings 8-18-15
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And the next day with shade in place!
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Eagle Scout Tom Willer installed the shade pole 8-15-15.
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Corn in 5th grade box. 7-30-15.
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Lettuce is bolting and turning bitter, but look how tall it gets! 7-30-15
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5th grade box with corn, carrots and squash
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An ESS student finds a tobacco hornworm on the tomatoes. July 2015.
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Zinnias a little later in July 2015.
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Those darn green caterpillars (cabbage looper) ate the 2nd graders' kale. July 2015.
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Sunflowers popped up on the ground next to 1st grade box and made some bees happy! July 2015
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1st grade box: zinnias and green beans growing! 7-9-15
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Charlotte tries a green bean
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Lettuce in 3rd grade box, 7-2015
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Aha! A tobacco hornworm has been eating our tomatoes! 7-7-15
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Who has been eating the tomatoes?! 7-7-15
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That bush in the corner is a zinnia! Students planted the seeds on Earth Day and they took root! 7-6-15
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Our awesome volunteers built a shed this summer. 7-6-15.
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Summer squash! 7-6-15
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Basil getting some help with pollination! 7-6-15
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Over the summer, our crops grew! Lettuce, 6-19-15
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Hand painted rocks around our apple tree
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3rd grade teacher, Nancy Bellinghiere Hall. The garden is her brainchild!
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Farmer Roy gets recognized for his expertise in helping start our garden.
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5-29-15 First graders gather around their box of beans at the garden dedication
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Thanks to our donors!
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Mrs. BellinghiereHall's 3rd grade class really put a lot of work into this garden
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Troop 8104 at Garden Dedication 5-29-15
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First little seedlings
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5-29-15 View from Tannin Dr. Ready for the dedication party
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Ms. Higgins supports the colored pencil gate

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Picket fence and brick path are in!
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5-27-15 Making space for the engraved bricks.

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5-27-15 Laying bricks

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5-27-15 Many helpers building and painting
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Mike Hall, Ed Dalati and Dean Howard confer about new fence
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5-14-15 Ed Dalati put in the fenceposts.
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Putting in a rabbit fence. Cinco de Mayo work party 5-5-15.
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Dahlia Shukri Muhannad paints our pencil picket fence. Cinco de Mayo work party 5-5-15.
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Adam Dalati sets pavers at Cinco de Mayo work party 5-5-15.
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Setting the pavers. Cinco de Mayo work party 5-5-15.
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Measuring boxes during Cinco de Mayo work party 5-5-15
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Kate Lowry digging in the dirt! Cinco de Mayo work party 5-5-15
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Roy Wilburn and Nate Tauzer pose by blood orange tree, donated by Sunshine Care on Arbor Day. 4-24-15
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Farmer Roy Wilburn of Sunshine Care and Poway Valley Garden Club plants the tangerine tree donated by Sherry Rudrud and Maxine Schimmel of Bernardo Gardeners on Arbor Day 4-24-15.
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Arbor Day 4-24-15
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Arbor Day 4-24-15
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Helpers filling boxes, Earth Day, 4-22-15
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Filling boxes with Kellogg soil, Earth Day, 4-22-15
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Students filling boxes with soil on Earth day, 4-22-15.
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Painting bricks and fences on Earth Day, 4-22-15.
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Receiving donation from Girl Scouts Troop 8104 on Earth Day, 4-22-15.
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Garden boxes plus signs 4-21-15
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Students and scouts planting up the hill 4-16-15
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Box building day 4-16-15
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Scout Lowry oversees box building 4-16-15 with many parent, student and scout volunteers.
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Box building day, 4-16-15
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Looking down on garden "before", on 4-15-15.
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Garden "before", weeds removed, March 2015
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Garden "before" photo, March 2015
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The area behind portables, March 2015