During the last class of the week the agric students and I mananged to finish the planting of the 64 cacao trees in the plot! After 190 hours of human endeavour, from reassigning holes, mixing soil, digging out new holes, allocating clones to planting, we have done it! Now we just have to protect the […]
Early on a bright and sunny day a bunch of volunteers, students, teachers, parents, social service students (and some in detention) came to the Bolivar Garden to plant our 64 clones! The day started by collecting more compost from Carlos´s compost area and mixing it with soil residue from Dr Martin´s mushroom farm. This was […]
With a new batch of seedlings bought from Don Simón funds, students set about germinating seedlings of many types of brassicas (cabbages, kohl rabi, brussel sprouts and kale) and carrots, scorzona, parsnips and turnips. Seeds were germinated in newly purchased seedling trays and managed by students. Tomato plants were also seeded as were other herbs […]
We have planted the first items in the greenhouse. Students decided to try and grow tomatoes, corn and cucumbers. These were planted from seed in the case of tomatoes, heirloom seeds, and seedlings of maize that were germinated in the lab. These seedlings were planted at 15 cm spacing for maize in three rows in […]
After setting up the seed bed for our new coffee, Don Hugo Guerrero, our school gardiner, showed students how to transplant seedlings into new bags with compost for their future growth.
After the success of planting coffee in the Bolivar garden, we are hopeful for this next project that is coming. As an assignment for agriculture, each student has to work on writing a monograph about a plant we were interested in. In my case, I chose to write about Phaseolus vulgaris, which is the common […]
In the past few months, the garden has been shaping up nicely, having coffee, garlic, ornamental tomatoes, carrots, citronella, papaya, plantain, and other plants that this class has planted. However, there was an extreme need for shade along all of the garden, where plants were receiving constant sun. For this reason, the class previously incorporated […]
After the main jobs such as, fixing the terraces, getting rid of the undergrowth in the coffee plants and the hotbeds, were done, we proceeded to work on the bean plantations. As always we tried to use the materials that we had at hand, in this case we used a wall of bamboo and tin, […]
Dr Nagy asked me at the start of this academic year if I was indeed going to consider growing coffee as a crop. I thought this an excellent idea and so brought some seeds from Finca El Manatial, in Chicoral to show students the process of starting a mini coffee plantation. Students were shown the […]
