Progress Post Three- 11/12/17

On this day, after school we picked up our plants from Elliot's house and went back to the school. When we got back to the school, we spent about an hour digging up, planting, and watering all of our plants in the area. When we were done we cleaned up, snapped some pictures, and headed back.

(Picture of completed garden before transporting it)

 

Progress Post Four- 11/10/17

On this day, we were informed by Mr. Bursch, our teacher, that the plants we got were going to get too big for the area we chose, and needed to relocate them to a larger area. So as a group we planned out a new area we could put the plants, and settled on a space directly to the left of our previous spot. It had less Trees and was much more open for our plants to grow.

(New Area for Garden Transplant) 

 

Progress Post Five- 11/29/17

This was the final day, the area was approved by Mr. Bursch, so after school we went to work. We got tools from Our teachers shed, and relocated all of our plants to the new larger area. It took us about 45 minutes. We were better at planting them now because of our knowledge of our previous experience. All we did was repeat the same process of, but before we dug them up carefully out of the ground. We dug 4 holes, spread apart from each other horizontally, and planted the plants in them with the native soil, and then watered them. After that we returned Mr. Bursch's tools, and went home.

(Final Picture of the completed Garden)

 

Progress Post Two- 11/11/17

On this day, we researched all of the plants we wanted, and created out budget of $80. After school we went over to Elliot's house and then his mother drove us all together to a local nursery in the area. We decided on the plants: The Arctostaphylos Howard Mcminn (Medium Sized Manzanita), The Arctostaphylos Emerald Carpet (Smaller type of Manzanita), a Carmel Creeper Ceanothus, and a Heteromeles Arbutifolia (Toyon). We bought all of them for $45.90, but we also had to buy some soil that supported our native plants. The soil was $20, and we ended up remaining in our budget with only abouy $66 spent.

(Capitol Nursery in San Jose)

Progress Post One- 11/10

 On this day, as a group we brainstormed, and and spotted out an area we thought was a good space to grow our plants. It was fairly small, about 6 foot by 6 foot. Then we asked Mr. Bursch if we could plant it over there, and he said yes depending on the plants we wanted to get.

(Original Area we planned for Garden)