Our 3rd Grade Garden!

We've check on our AMAZING garden throughout the year and have some pretty great photos of our 3rd Grade Garden! The kids have done great checking in on our garden during STEAM school, recess, after school, and other random times during the school day when we've had a quick second!

As of today, we have 7 pea pods, 6 (and counting) pumpkins coming in, and 5 sunflower plants that pass up almost every single kiddo!

This is where we started. Several milk cartons lined up in the window sill of our classroom with Swiss Chard, Broccoli, and Purple Snap Peas. (We planted the sunflowers and pumpkins directly in the ground later).

Unfortunately, our Swiss Chard kept getting eaten.

So did our broccoli, but it's starting to grow back!

The beginning to our purple snap peas

Our pumpkin plants sprouted!

Sunflowers sprouting!

Purple snap peas reaching for the sun

About the size of my palm after about a week sprouted

The beginning to our pumpkins!

It looks like a tangled mess, but they're supporting each other!

REALLY growing!

There's a possibility these are going to pass some of us up soon ...

Some leaves are bigger than MY hands!

Some leaves are bigger than the kids hands!

  

Our broccoli is coming back! We covered it with plastic bottles to keep the critters away and it payed off!

Stretching toward to sun in the late afternoon

Just a few more leaves, and it should start blooming!

3 weeks later and our pumpkin plants are starting to stretch out and grow even larger leaves

Look at those pretty purple snap pea blossoms!

We've got peas!

As of 5-28-19, our shortest sunflower was 110 cm, and the tallest was 130 cm.

We got to see these pumpkin blossoms open first thing in the morning! By the time we went out again at recess, they had closed up.

Check out this cute little grasshopper nymph that we found camouflaging on this pumpkin leaf. It's almost the EXACT same color!

I think the most exciting thing was getting to see our pumpkins starting up! The one on the left is the largest one we have so far. At last count, we saw 6 that we were able to tell are pumpkins. There were a few more we found later that were hiding from us!

Our longest pumpkin vine was at 184 cm.We had to use 2 meter tapes to measure since our first one stopped at 150 cm.

It took 6 of them to make sure they were getting the most accurate measurement and holding the tape as close to the stem as possible.

2 of the 7 pea pods we have! This is our largest. Some of them are still green and haven't turned purple yet, but still look really neat!

It's been a BLAST gardening with the grade level during STEAM school and both my and Ms. Langehennig's class during STEAM school, class, and recess. I love how inquisitive they are all and all of their questions to learn more! Here's to hoping I have some 4th grade garden experts to help me out next year!