Morning Glory Seed Hunt (After School Program)

Today after school it was just warm enough for us to go outside for a few minutes. So we decided to pick morning glory seeds. We had a competition to see who got the most morning glory seeds. There were a lot of morning glories on the fence. All 6 gardeners and 3 adults pitched in! We all loved picking morning glory seeds and spending time with our Global Gardens Family. Some of the gardeners got over a thousand seeds. Kaitlyn and Jordan's team collected 8 piles of 300 seeds. So we multiplied 300x8. And we got 3,200 seeds! Then we discovered we had 5 left over. So altogether we had 3,205 seeds! Devan and Asael's team collected 260 seeds! They divided them into fives. When they did that they had 52 piles. Eric and Kenny's team collected 5 piles of 300 seeds. So we added 300+300+300+300+300=1,500. Then we added 85 more seeds and we got 1,585! That's a lot of seeds! Altogether the student gardeners gathered 3,205+260+1,500=4,965! We're going to have a lot of morning glories next year!

The Best Salad Ever Part 2 by Ms. Hurt's Class (4th grade)

It was good. I loke how we plant the lettuce and radish with Mr. Bhadri. It was the best day. I like when we ate the lettuce and radish and the carrots are not ready. -Michael
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It feel good. It smelled good. We all ate it. It was the bomb. When I picked it, it felt cool. The radish smelled good. The lettuce was the bomb. The lettuce smelled good. The salad was the bomb. Mr Bhadri helped us to pick the radish and lettuce. Mr. Bhadri chopped the radish and the lettuce made some salad. Mr. Bhadri ate some salad. Some friends helped us pick the radish and lettuce. Next time we will pick carrots. -Adolfo
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Me and my friends picked the lettuce and the radish. And Mr. Bhadri helped us. Then we ate the lettuce and the radish. The radish was sour and the lettuce was good. It was fun. Thank you Mr. Bhadri! -Rachel
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The weather was warm and it was kind of good. I liked when we planted because we got to rake and hoe it. And it was fun. Mr. Bhadri helped us too. We got to see our garden and it was kind of spicy. What we had in the salad was some radish. There were two of them. Ragan got one of her radish out of her garden. We got about 20 or 28 of them. We had fun and it was delicious! Mr. Bhadri picked and chopped. -Iyanla
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The weather was great when I planted. First we got some seeds. Next we watered them with rain water and in one month the radish and lettuce was done. We made some salad out of it. It was gooooooood!!!!!! The carrots are still grwoing but the carrots taste good too. Mr. Bhadri taught us all about plants. -Elijah
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I loved the salad. It was the best. I love Global Gardens. The lettuce was the bomb. It smelled good. Me and my friends now know when the radish have big shoulders we can pick them out of the garden. I hope that we will do it again. Wow was Global Gardens! -Makyla

Great Tips for Growing Lettuce by Mrs. Turner's Class (3rd Grade)

On November 23, 2009 we planted lettuce and learned about how it can grow. Our class had never planted lettuce before. You should go look at it. It is growing nicely. If you want to grow some here's what you have to do:
1) Soften your soil with a hoe.
2) Once the soil is fluffy ad compost.
3) Make the soil flat with a rake.
4) Make sure the lettuce is not too close together. It needs about 6 inches to grow.
5) Now sprinkle the seeds on the soil.
6) Then write lettuce on a label so you know where you planted.
7) Be careful with the seeds. They are small easy to lose.
8) Rub the soil with your hands.
9) Be sure to take care and water it at least once a day when it's young.

Once you've done this you've planted it. You will one day see it has two leaves. It should take about a week. When it fully grown you can pick it, wash it and then eat it!

The Best Salad Ever by Ms Hurt's Class (3rd grade)

The salad was good to me. The salad was the boom. My friends liked it. Did you? The radish was hot. Thank you Mr. Bhadri. Don't eat worms. - David
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It was so good. I felt like eating the whole bowl and Mr. Bhadri cut the food and it was very very good. And I had fun that day because I got to pick radish and lettuce and leaf. And I love you Mr. Bhadri. It was cool!!!!!!!!!! - Chris
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I liked when we planted it the lettuce and the radish. Mr. Bhadri made the salad and washed the lettuce and the radish. Our class ate the salad and we took a picture with the salad and ate the salad. It was good too. It was fantabulous and fun to eat it all up too and we loved it. November 19 we will eat the carrots and we'll love it. Maybe next year my new class will ask my teacher if we can plant lettuce and radish too. If she says yesI will love it to the last bite. I will say to my teacher I did it with friends! - Kaylynn
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The lettuce and radish was good. The weather was hot. It was good. The carrots were not ready. It was fun goin out there to get the radish and the lettuce. - Jeremiah
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We planted lettuce and radish on September 9, 2009. I think that it was pretty cool. We waited a while and then when it was ready to harvest we pulled them out. When we were done picking then Mr. Bhadri cut them and washed them. When he was done he brought them to us to eat. When we ate it everbody thought it was really good. Some people said that the radishes were sour and some people thought the lettuce was good. - Noah
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It was as good as candy mmmmmmmm. Mr Bhadri helped us plant it on Sept. 9. We all ate it. It was good. Are cool Bhadri. - Katie
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It was fun growing salad! Because it' scool growing food and then picking it and seeing what food we can make with it. And our class went to our class garden and we picked some radishes also. And our awesome Global Gardens teach Mr. Bhadri went to the Harvest Kitchen and cut up the radish and cooked them. And he brought the salad to lunch and gave some to us. The radishes tasted a little hot, but it was still really good. And I go to the Global Gardens after School and I pulled out some radishes and I took it home and ate it and it was very, very good. And then about a week later I pulled 2 out. - Ragan
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The Poor Flower by Tapanga (2nd Grade)

There was a flower in the grass. The bees were swarming around it. The poor flower. That has to hurt! It would hurt me. The end.

Ms. Lenard's 4th Grade Class Snacks on Radishes

This past August 2009 we planted radishes and lettuce with Mr. Bhadri. In a couple of weeks or so we saw sprouts. It rained a lot this summer. The rained helped the roots to grow and we didn't have to water much. So our plants would grow better we pulled weeds, composted and took good notes. Finally in late November we harvested our radishes. Next we washed the radishes at the Harvest Market. Then we pulled off the leaves and ate them with ranch. They had an unusual flavor. They tasted spicy and were crunchy like candy. If you haven't tried radishes you should! Thanks for reading our blog.

Students from Ms. Stacy's 2nd Grade Class Squash Bread Story

One day we made squash bread. We made it at the Harvest Market Store. We made squash and not another kind of bread because we grow squash in our Global Garden. Our squash is huge. It weighed 5 pounds! We had to have a recipe to make it. We had two groups of ingredients. One was the wet ingredients and one was the dry ingredients. Then we mixed them together. After we baked it, we ate it. It tasted like squash mixed up with bread. It also tasted like cinnamon and sweet bread. We had so much that we shared it at the community garden day!

What did you like about this story? Please let us know!

learning more about planting

Learning how wide and how deep to plant. learning how to make rows to plant. Learning what we can plant. learning how to plan so we can plant. learning to work with soil. labeling dead heads to save for next spring to plant. and how to plant seeds.

The Scary Day, a fiction story, by Devon, third grade

There was once a boy named Devon and there was a garden named Global Gardens and once every night owls flied over it and the trees. One night Devon and his friend named Cameron went to the garden and that second the garden came alive and ate Devon and Cameron. Then it noticed that it did not eat meat, it eats flowers, and then spit them back out and they ran home and told their mom all about it.

The Dog and the Cat and the Bear Plant Food by Kenny (4th grade)

Once upon a time there was a bear and a cat and a dog. They were in the garden! We are here but the cat said, "Let's get the weeds and pull them out." The bear had a good idea that night. And we got the weeds and put them in the compost. And the dog said,"You're right, that is a great idea." That night the cat said,"Let's plant some corn." And the bear said,"Let's plant greens." Then the cat and dog agreed, "That has got to be good." The dog said,"Let's plant some tomatoes." The END!

The Mysterious Garden by Tyler (3rd Grade)

One night the mysterious garden was asleep. A man went in the mysterious garden to water the plants. The whole garden woke up and the garden ate him!

The Garden, a Fiction Story by Kaylee (4th grade)

One day me and Lucy went out to the garden to plant some flowers. And we were planting different kinds and we started hearing sounds. And we didn't know what it was and where it was so we went looking for it and it stopped for about thirty minutes. So we went planting again and it started again, so we went looking for it. It was a puppy stuck in the flowers!

The Store, by Asael 2nd grade

We have a grocery store in Global Gardens. They sell orchard gold grapes, pizza snacks, cheese puffs, pringles, rice krispies, cheese crackers, junior pops, tortilla chips, potato chips, corn chips, ice cream sandwiches, butter, cinnamon crunch, cocoa peanut butter spheres kookies, honey crunch n'oats, pepperoni pizza, cheese pizza, combination pizza, supreme pizza, animal crackers, honey grahams, chocolate chip cookies, and vanilla wafers.

It is a big grocery store. People can buy stuff in the grocery store. I like it. The whole schools likes it. It's a great store.

We're Back!!!!!

We know its been a long time since we updated the blog, but we have some new stories!
Check back often, we are back to writing and reporting our work!!!
Have fun!!!!

P.S. Jordan says you must read the Lion story, it is so scary...

The Lion Under the Trailer, a fiction story by Jordan, fifth grade

One time at Global Gardens me, Loreal, and Lovelle went hunting for my cat. Not killing them of course, which would be hunting, but looking. When we went to look under the trailer all the sudden we saw two big yellow eyes staring straight at us, VERY wide and VERY big! Staring straight at us as if it was going to POUNCE on us! A mysterious storm blew in, and all of the sudden the eyes ran straight at us! It was crawling so close I could see its snout. I was terrified, I ran and ran until my feet were tired. It followed me. I looked back, it was ready to ponce on me. But at that moment Mr. Bhadri came with the bamboo sticks and protected me. And after the last pounce it accidently jumped over us. mr Bhadri gave me a bamboo stick and I hypnotized it to go back where it came from. The lion went home until the next time someone went under the trailer. Mwa-ha-ha!!!
The end.

Fourth Grade interviews

Fourth Grade Twin Gardens

Mrs. Warnke’s Class asks: Does your garden have a bunch of weeds?
Mrs. Lenard’s Class: No not really we have whole bunch of plants. We went out to the garden last week and cleared it out.

Mrs. Warnke’s class: What kind of flowers do you have?
Mrs. Lenard’s Class: We currently have a sunflower, passion fruit vine which is native to Oklahoma.

Mrs. Warnke’s: What makes your garden so special?
Mrs. Lenard’s: We have different plants. We shaped our garden to show the state of Oklahoma. Our short term goals we are going to create mountains and rivers in our garden. We researched Oklahoma geography and found out where the Arkansas River and the mountains in Oklahoma are located. We are going to place Lake Eufaula on our map because that is the largest body of water in Oklahoma. Our garden is going to a visual map of Oklahoma.

What is growing on the Passion Vine? Fruit and white really cool flowers.

Why did you pick Oklahoma to be your garden Theme? We thought it would be a really cool idea. We brainstormed a large list of ideas and we decided all the ideas could be placed in the Oklahoma garden. We wanted to create a living map and learning tool to create our garden.

Are you going to cut a river into the garden and fill it with water to create water? We are going to use marbles blue and clear to create the effect of a river.

What plants are you going to plant in our garden? We are going to plant items that grow in Oklahoma.

Mrs. Lenard’s Class asks:
What are you doing in your garden? We are planting berries like strawberries, blackberries, blueberries, raspberries and grapes.

What do you have in your garden? We have sunflowers, and a large variety of berries.

What is your garden called? The Berry Garden

What makes your garden special? We have very large sunflower. We have berries and grapes. We have items that can feed a person if they were hungry. Our garden is very healthy. We are trying to figure out how the sunflower appeared?

What does the garden look like? We do have a few weeds; we have some blackberries with thorns.

Do you have carrots? No we have Berries and one sunflower. We do have some fruit trees around our garden.

Are you going to add river or pond? No we do not want to hurt our plants roots.

Do you grow anything else besides berries? No we only have berries and one sunflower.

Do you have any animals in your garden? No maybe occasionally a frog might hop by… We estimate about 200 frogs may be hopping about in the entire garden.

I was helping Mr. Mike, By Samuel, Kindergardener

I was working in my garden and I was planting in my garden. I was watering my garden and getting water on me too! I was picking up weeds and putting them in the compost with Mr Mike.
I like the flowers, and bugs drink the nectar from the flowers. And butterflies drink nectar from the flowers too! And honey comes from nectar. And we eat the honey.
My garden has a lot of flowers, it doesn't have any more space. In my garden I planted two things!

Jordan's blog

The garden is really nice. And I mean really nice. We have a teachers sweat award and a kids sweat award! Its where the people who work very hard, the others will vote for who wins the kids sweat award. The teachers sweat award is when the kids give the teachers flowers or mint for the teachers sweat award.
My pen pals name is Connor. He is really nice but I haven't heard from him ever since I got his first letter.
In my garden I have so much mint that I can't take it any more! It is filling my garden! Its just like a big, huge plant in the middle of my garden, all the way to the edges! And I also have strawberries, and I have frogs!!! I planted lavender. I planted some radishes, red and white ones, of course, I really love to plant flowers and i have two types of flowers, one of them is a sunflower. The second one is a mystery flower. I don't know what type it is. If I get another seed packet of that mystery flower, I really love it.
When ever I see my garden at night it looks so beautiful! And I really love the mint that's in my garden, I love to eat it! Its really, really tasty. My garden has the most mint in the Global Gardens. And frogs are really really cute, and watch them just catch a bug is so cool!! :)
Whenever they hop into your hands its just so cool!
Come and see our garden and if you want to donate anything you can. Blueberries are just so cool.
Your friend,
Jordan

Daniels first day! by Daniel, second grade

Hello my name is Daniel. I am new in global gardens. I plant a lot of plants in my garden and I take the weeds out of the garden because if I don't take the weeds out it will kill the plants. I planted strawberries in my class garden and I never miss behave in global gardens.

Julian's letter to John at Rosa Parks

Dear John,
My name is Julian and I read your letter. So what you need to do for your chinese lantern is to pull out the weeds and the easy way to do it is to put water on it and then pull it out carefully. The other way is to pull it by the bottom and make sure the roots are all the way out. So I hope your chinese lantern works out to be what you want it to be and keep planting!
We looked up the chinese lantern and it is orange and it looks like the size of a radish. I liked how it was your favorite plant and someday you will be a wonderful gardener!
I'm nine just like you!
from Julian Corrie

Worm Story by Kyree, second grade

This story was written after the second graders observed earthworms and put them into their garden to live. They were asked to write a story of what the worms are doing in the garden now that they live there...


The worms might be eating a plant. They might be having fun. One had a baby. They might meet. The worms made a home. My worms name is Kymen. I watched him leave. He made his new home. They are in a better place now. He has his own family now. I miss him. I will see him and he was mine but I miss him.

A story of the Garden, by Kyree, second grade

I like the plants and they are beautiful. We planted some and I like them. I like the grapes. The garden is cool and the roots are pulled and the garden has gotten better. I like the worms. The worms are pretty.

Ms. Lenard's class speaks!!

Greetings!! We are Ms. Lenards 4th grade Global Gardeners. We would love to share some of our experiences and experiments with you.. so pull up a comfy toadstool and let's chat!!
Our class is very thankful for our garden. Gardening has taught us many valuable lessons. We have learned about teamwork, sportsmanship, kindness and generosity. We would love to have you join us in the wonderful world of gardening. All you need is a little dirt, a few seeds a lot of faith and strength and courage.
Our garden plot has an Oklahoma theme. All our plants are native to our beautiful state. We have Indian Blankets, sunflowers, black-eyed susans and purple cone flowers. We also have a passion vine and that's where our experiment begins. We are experimenting with worm castings{ That's a fancy name for worm poop! It will make our vine grow faster than just regular soil. Unfortunately neither vine is doing well at this time. we are not sure if the worm castings have anything to do with this or if we damaged the vine when we transplanted it..
we will keep you posted.

global gardens by zuleyka

global gardens is the best because this place make us be so happy that you never want to go home. then some guests comes and some students give them a tour to them .then people come and see our gardens that we have. so that is global gardens i hope you enjoyed it. thank you for reading it bye bye........

Hello everyone i am glad you are here reading this up date.We are now partners with
the rosa park kids and we are sharing global gardens with them.We were supposed to write to them.The only person who has writened a letter is DonRe' the new and a very special student.We appreciateher for all her work we hope she stays her all the year.Thank you DonRe'.

How our garden changed

Our garden changed a lot. I went outside to our garden and I found bulbs!!!!!! I saw my tulips,daffodils,crocus's and more! Also all my plants have came back to life from the winter especially my pansies they look beautiful!!!!!!!!!!! They look a lot more better from the winter they looked dead when it was winter but now they look great. My chive I have a lot more chive leaves!!! and I picked a radish and it was huge!!!!!! My lettuce has grown so big I can almost have a salad. Although everything in my garden is growing. My fall plants such as my kale is dying out because it is not cold anymore. But it is okay because I have a lot more plants growing. Such as my mint it has spread all over my garden. I have so much stuff in my garden that before we planted the bulbs I had to dig up more to my garden so I could all the bulbs I wanted in. It was a lot of work to plant them but it was definitely worth it. I hope you are able to take a look at them. I hope you enjoy them. Bye

Global Gardens is the best!

Global Gardens is the coolest yet because you get your own garden. You get to do activities for example are we painted signs and hung them on the fence so you might see them.