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If you have questions about Nature Club or Gardening at the school, please contact Mrs. Cardoso at: [email protected]
.tx.us or 281.641.2886.
Garden Harvest
Last week’s harvest included lettuce, rad-ishes, spinach, kohl-rabi, cabbage, and herbs. The onions planted in January are doubling their size. The potatoes planted two weeks ago are poking
sprouts up and out of the soil.
The tomatoes, onions, and potatoes are do-ing very well and growing fast! Beans, cucumbers, squash, peppers and egg plant have been planted. Now it is a weekly chore to make sure they get lots of good organic fertilizer, pests are controlled, and weeds are re-
moved. In class, Mr. McMullen will discuss “Good Guys and Bad Guys” and Mrs. Op-perman will discuss “Pest Patrol”. Each class has only four more scheduled gar-dening classes before the end of the year. We will be gardening with Mrs. Krenek’s two classes this week.
5th Grade Garden
Harvest
Two of the last
three weeks have had students miss-ing gardening, first
due to Spring Break and last week, due to testing. The vol-
unteers did pick all the produce last
week and sent it in-
side for distribution to the students. The spring crops are
coming to an end but lots of lettuce, broccoli, collards,
radishes and herbs were harvested.
Sugar Snap Peas
are growing in sev-eral spots and we hope to have a big
OAK FOREST
ELEMENTARY
6400 KINGWOOD
GLEN
HUMBLE, TX 77346
281-641-2800
April 11, 2013
Grower’s News • Certified Texas Wildscapes (Wildlife Habitat) by the Texas Parks and
Wildlife Department
• Schoolyard Habitat by the National
Wildlife Federation
• School Yard Habitat by the Audubon
Society
• Members of Urban
Harvest
Master Gardeners
• Mrs. Gudrun Opperman
• Ms. Jo Sanders
Master Naturalists
• Mr. Damien Carey
• Ms. Terri Simmons
Volunteers
• Mr. Hal Opperman
• Mrs. Caroline Carey
• Mr. James Hernandez
• Ms. LaVern Cutrell
• Mr. Harry McMullen
• Ms. Teresa Metelits
• Ms. Maryanne Hefele
• Ms. Miriam Canales
• Ms. Margaret Hennessey
If you have questions about Nature Club or Gardening at the school, please contact Mrs. Cardoso at: [email protected]
.tx.us or 281.641.2886.
The students, nature club, and volunteers have been transform-ing the orchard. In addition to about a dozen fruit and nut trees there are also several vegetable beds and a number of bird and animal feeding stations there. The Chimney Swift Tower had its
first residents last year and we hope to see more this year. There are now two Purple Martin houses and several composting areas.
Orchard News
If you have questions about the OFE Growers, want to volunteer, or contribute please contact Debbie Krenek, Vivian Cardoso, or Allison Wolf through the OFE website.
Wanted Items
school year. Nature Club is still collecting cell/smart phones, printer cartridges, digital cameras, and
old laptops. Every little bit helps!
We still need 350 bags of leaves and pine needles to meet our goal of recycling 2000 on campus this
We need your
disposable
plastic shopping
bags!
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