Ms. Newman's Class's Literary Garden

Ms. Newman's class is planting a literary garden. In the garden, the plants will have something to do with fairy tales, nursery rhymes, and tongue twisters. For example, we are planting beans to go with Jack and the Beanstalk. We are growing pumpkins for "Peter, Peter, Pumpkin-eater". We are growing carrots for "Tops and Bottoms". Have you read the book, Holes? If you did, you would know onion are in it. Since it has been raining for two weeks, we have planted some seeds inside and they have started to germinate. Germinate means that the seed has sprouted. Some of our plants that we planted inside are watermelons, radishes, and peppers. When it stops raining, we can put the little plants in our big garden plot. We planted many different kinds of seeds. Even though some plants are big, the seeds are tiny. Our tallest seedling is two thumbs tall. Seedling means a small plant that has just sprouted. After our plants are no longer seedlings, they will look beautiful. Just like Ms. Newman's class! We hope you like our literary garden.

Ms Warnke's Berry Garden

Our class has been doing research on berries because we are making a berry garden in the back of our school. Our garden is going to have all kinds of berries. So far we have chosen blackberries, raspberries, boysenberries, strawberries, porcelain vine, beauty berry, amelanchier berries, soapberry, youngberry, logan berry, grapes, and olallie berry. You might wonder why we have not chosen blueberry, we found out that it takes six years for the plant to produce berries. We have been doing poems about our berries, and we have learned that our county can produce a high rate of berries. We learned that blackberries can stain your skin. Strawberries have at least 200 seeds on every berry, and they are the only fruit that has seeds on the outside! Strawberries are a symbol of love because they are heart shaped. Strawberries, and many other berries, are a member of the rose family. We are very excited to get started because we have never tasted most of these berries! We are going to experiment on berries that we have never tasted before. We will not eat the beauty berry, because some of its parts are poisonous. We are deciding if we should plant poisonous berries, because we do not want little children to pick them and eat them.
Soon our dream of making a berry garden is going to come true! We may still be pulling the grass out this week, but by the time this berry garden is finished, it will be a beautiful fabulous success!
Would you like to help us make this garden?
Have a berry good day!

Global Gardens Report by Tamera and Mileena

We are the Global Garden reporters and we are here to talk to you about what we have been doing since January. First, we brainstormed about our dream for Global Gardens. We dreamed for a maze, a tree house, a bird house, pathways with our names engraved, educational signs for each plant, a pond with lily flowers, fruit baskets for people in the military, and many more ideas! Next, since it was still winter we started experimenting with plants indoors. Then we finally had Tractor Thursday when Farmers Joe came and tilled our soil. Then we planned out where everyone's plot was going to be. Everybody was responsible for getting the rest of the weeds out of their plots. Global Gardens after school kids has also created and started jobs such as treasurer, reporter, and more. It has been raining for two weeks. Finally it has stopped and we are excited to plant!

Ms. Lenard's Class Garden

We are in Ms. Lenard's fourth grade class and we are doing a global garden at school. Our class is making an Oklahoma garden. We started by choosing flowers that are native to Oklahoma and we definely want Indian Blanket. We are planting plants that native americans used and we are doing research on the Oklahoma plants. We have plants that attract birds, butterflies, and bees, they will even attract songbirds and humminngbirds! The animals will help our plants grow, they give pollen to the flowers. our plants are different sizes, from one to four feet tall. The black eyes susan will grow to two feet wide. We are planting plants that in the wintertime you might think they are dead, but they are not, they are just resting and will come back in the spring. These plants are called perennials. Our garden is 15 feet long and five feet wide. Our garden is shaped like the state of Oklahoma. We are having so much fun! If you would like to come to the garden, you can come and see how it looks. It might be small now, but by the time we finish it will be BIG! Theank you for reading this! We hope to see you soon! The end.
Sincerely,
Ms. Lenard's class

May 19 Community Planting Saturday

We are having a community planting day at Eugene Field on Saturday May 19th, 2007 from 9:00 in the morning to 12:00 noon. Please come and help us in our garden. It would be helpful if you could bring tools, plants, and a lot of energy! It will be a lot of fun and we hope to see you there!

Honest Germinators

Today we checked out our seeds. Our seeds are starting to grow. We planted corn, watermelon, cucumbers, cantalope, hollyhocks, zinnas, and sunflowers. Because the weather has been so rainy, we haven't been going outside to work in our garden, so we decided to plant some seeds inside.
We are so happy that our seeds are growing.
written by Emely and Izelle

Spring 2007

Global Gardens has been operating since January 2007 at Eugene Field Elementary School in Tulsa, Oklahoma. We have a community garden with 31 student, family, and teacher garden plots. We have a daily afterschool program with students who have their own individual and shared family garden plots, where students design and plant their own garden, and manage the overall community garden space. We have had so much rain this spring, but we are hopeful for a good growing season and have been learning so much and having so much fun in the garden. Gardening is hard work, but it is worth it!

Thank you so much to our funders!

Global Gardens is supported by grants and donations. Thanks to all the generous donations our garden can grow!

A BIG thank you to:
The Hille Foundation
George Kaiser Family Foundation
Tulsa Community Foundation
Southwood Nursery and Joe Shulte

Individaul donors:
Shelby Oakley
Pat Kimbrel
Richard Dixon
Sharon Davis
Jan and Dwight Creveling
Lisa and DeRoy White
Elizabeth Wallis/Petal Pushers
Lowanda Johnson
Wayne and Judy Neal
Larry and Marilyn Hall
Debbie Consedine
Gerry and Jody Miller
Michael and Shirley Mills
Stephanie and Bruce Riddle
Patrice Lott
Don Wiechmann
Brian Phillips
Sug and Lee Selby
Pat and Dale Maxwell
Shirely Bruce
Ann Paris
Leslie Day
Quanah Yackeschi