Harvest Day

We all got to harvest food to take home to feast on tonight. It was a lot of fun to be able to enjoy the results of our work.

Thanks Maya!

Thank you to all who attended our first brown bag lunch lecture! Maya was great! She shared lots of reasons why roof gardens are so good for those of us living in cities. Her encouraging word words inspired us all.

Eco-Lunch Lecture Series Begins 11/17/09

Join us in welcoming Maya, the GLIDE edible roof garden coordinator, as she shares her experience and passion for roof top gardens and insights as to how people all over the world are inspiring alternative gardening spaces for those of us who live in America's most beautiful urban area!

Bring your lunch to the science room on the 3rd floor and take in Maya's sophisticated presentation and check out how our very own edible deck garden is progressing.

Be there promptly at 12:15 and stay through 12:55 to learn about all the advantages rooftop gardening can provide city dwellers!

Potato Tower Construction for this Tuesday 11/10/09!

We are excited to announce plans for our potato tower plantings for next Tuesday 11/10/09. Stay connected to see how the construction goes.

Ideas about potato planting can be viewed at

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/19/HOFL187SMS.DTL&type=homeandgarden

Lunchtime Gardening

Today we planted strawberries and artichokes, watered our growing plants and wrote a letter to the all PHS classes inviting them to make use of the space. We also built a very fancy tool chest to store our garden tools. Our plants are growing healthy and our garden is growing into a beautiful community space to be shared.

Earth Box Construction

What a great way to spend a lunch. We now have two new earth boxes put together and ready to plant. They are so cool. They're on wheels! Thanks to our generous supporter for the gifts!

Friday Night Garden Party

The evening proved to be the definition of elegant simplicity. It was a magical moment where garden club supporters had the pleasure of sharing enchanting company, delicious foods, excellent music and some down home square dancing.

Thank you to parents, administration, staff and teachers who made time in their busy lives to share in this evening. Thank you for your generous gifts as well!

A great big heart felt thank you to Martin, Namrata, Pascale and Tony! Without their love, support, sweat and muscle this student project would not be possible!

Work day!!!

We have had a very productive day today. We would not have been able to do this without all your help and generous donations of supplies. We planted four big wine barrels with trees and assorted plants. We also used the wall hangers and they look very good. The deck is turning into a real garden very rapidly and it's nice to see the change. All of us in the Garden Club hope that you will continue to help. Thanks.

- Garden Club

Lunch Time Construction

Planting trees on a sunny autumn day in San Francisco is really fun when you get to use power tools! The fifteen of us teamed up to begin planting our deck orchard! We used wine barrels for planters. We planted a fig, olive, Myer lemon and grapefruit. We also built a few more SIP containers. Not bad for a 30 minute middle school lunch.

THANK YOU to the generous person who sent us the 4 trowels from Amazon.com!

Visit our wish list at http://www.wikipages.com/index.php?title=User:Greenroofphs

Remember to RSVP to our October 16th party at garden@presidiohill.org

Contact us at garden@presidiohill.org

Dear Garden Supporters,

You'll find The Garden Club wish at http://www.wikipages.com/index.php/User:Greenroofphs. If you would like to lend a specific tool, give an item or contribute a specific plant, go to the previous wikipages link, click edit at the top of the page/text box and type a capital x in front of the item of your choice on the list. Finally, you must click save at the bottom of the text box. The changes are then saved. We all will know that this item is no longer needed. Feel free to put your name after that item if you want, but anonymous support is great!

The items can be delivered to the third floor deck outside the science room. Deliveries are being graciously accepted now through Friday 10/16/09 at the 6-8 PM Garden Party.

Thanks for the encouragement!

The Garden Club

SIP Contruction Begins!

The gardening club spent today's lunch wielding power tools. We love power tools! It is mind blowing how fast and fun building containers for our edible roof garden was! We will actually plant cabbage, brochali, radishes and other yummy greens tomorrow!

Planting!!!

Hello, Garden Club minions!

At our meeting today, we decided that we're going to begin planting next week. Yeah! But before we can start, we need a few items. We need five-gallon pickle barrels, one-pound cottage cheese containers, PVC pipes, power drills, and a lock hole saw. If you know where we can get these, please comment and tell us!
We selected our wintergreens we are going to plant. These veggies and plants include the following:

ROOT VEGETABLES: carrots, radishes, beets, turnips, parsnips, rutabagas
GREENS: kale, chard, spinach, mustard greens, collards, Asian greens (bok choy, mizuna), arugula, radicchio, lambsquarters, mesclun lettuces, orach, sorrel, endive
BRASSICAS: brussel sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, kohlrabi
HERBS: oregano, marjoram, basil, cilantro, parsley, chives, fennel, and any perennial herbs
OTHERS: Jerusalem artichokes (sunchokes), scallions, leeks, peas, celery, celeriac, bush beans, fava beans, garbanzo beans, oats
FRUITS: There are also some fruits that are harvested in the winter, like apples, pears, persimmons, and citrus fruits. But you'll need to plant them in late fall, winter, or early spring.

We have looked to our neighbors to the north for inspiration! Check out what's happening on the roofs in Montreal at http://www.insideurbangreen.org/rooftop-garden-project---montreal/

This coming Tuesday, 09/22/09, we'll be building SIP containers for planting our wintergreens. Take a look at the source for our design inspiration at http://greenroofgrowers.blogspot.com/2008/07/how-make-two-bucket-sub-irrigated.html

We need tools and materials to include;

power drills
door/keyhole saws
Used 5 gallon plastic buckets
Used 1 pound cottage cheese containers
1-inch PVC pipe
Organic potting soil

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