Pictures   Intern Profile I want to work at the garden because: I enjoy working with others, and I like to stay engaged in activities that will help benefit me, and others around me. Two of my personal goals for working at the Dallas Youth Garden this summer are: To learn more teamwork skills, and to do experiments to see how certain plants react to being around each other. Two things I hope to learn for working at the Dallas Youth Garden are: To get a better understanding of how to take care of plants in general, and to be able to understand how to plant them, and how certain aspects affect them directly. I think my biggest challenge will be: Most likely weeding, I feel as though I may accidently pull out my plants. My favorite vegetable or fruit is: Watermelon is my favorited fruit. I think a leader is: A person who is responsible, reliable, trustworthy, and will be willing to take initiative. I hope to contribute this leadership skill to the garden this season: By trying new experiments in the garden, and helping out as often as possible. Garden Plan:  Rows of vegetables planted: Marigolds, tomatoes, carrots, lettuce, radish, cucumber, sunflower, zucchini, basil, squash, zinnia, tomato, pepper, cabbage, chard swiss, kale, and sunflowers with marigolds. Number of different kinds of vegetables planted: 16 Planned Garden Yield: My garden did or did/not match my plan and why: Part of it didn't, because half way through I wanted to change my experiment plant from a vegetable to a flower. Garden Log: May 4: Started work and removed tarps May 7-11: We talked about our garden plans, and we made out garden plans. We also helped clean up the chairs at the garden sale on Saturday. May 14-18: We started planting our gardens, going according to the garden plans. May 21-25: We continued to plant our gardens, we watered them, and even started to weed them. May 28-June 1: We are wrapping up our gardens, and starting to do the walkways with bark chips. June 3-8: We have finished our gardens completely, and are watering them, and weeding them. June 10-15: Continue to weed, water, and pick off flowers from the tomatoes and squash. June 17-22: Still continuing to weed and water, we also put a mixture of water and fish fertilizer on our cucumbers, and squash. June 24-29: We are rapping up our leadership projects, and we continue to water as usual, but a few times we have done group weeding. July 2-6: We continued to weed and water, but started picking plants such as cabbage, and radish. July 8-13: We continued to weed and water, but also started picking plants like chard swiss, kale, squash, and continued on cabbage. July 15-20: Still weeding and watering, my tomatoes started growing, and we continued to pick the plants we picked last week. July 22-27: I completely weeded out as much as I could for open house, and we watering, then open house. July 30- August 3: We weeded and watered, and did some picking. We also chose the plants we were going to show off at the contest. August 6-10: We picked regularly and also picked things for fair, watered, and we weeded the best we could with the given amount of time. August 13-17: Just regular watering and weeding, and we continue to pick our regular plants, some people are even picking peppers and cucumbers. August 19-24: Still picking and watering regularly, we have done some minions, and some people are picking their tomatoes now. Leadership Project: Problem: Which one is better, growing plants in a garden or in some place like a windowsill? Solution: Research, and use my own experience to find out. Test/Activity: Slide show Results: Depending on what lifestyle you lead, and what the wanted results are. Communication: I had to ask, watch videos, read articles, and examine my garden, and my windowsill garden. Leadership Skills: I had to ask whether I could do this particular project, since it was not listed, and I had to take initiative and do my fair share of research. Leadership Project 2: Problem: We learned about how Sunflowers help reduce pests such as bugs, and I wanted to put that to the test. Solution: Look at the leafs of both my squash plants, and also document how much many bugs there are on them Test/Activity: Google Doc Results: It seems that in fact the squash closer to the sunflowers has less bugs. Communication: I had to ask about the project and take pictures and videos. Leadership Skills: I chose a project that I didn't hear anyone talk about, or do. Therefore, I had to ask permission, and take initiative. Leadership Project 3: Problem: Tomato rot. Solution: Continue to watch results, and maybe water less, and possibly add calcium after watching the results. Test/Activity: Google Doc Results: No big change in tomato rot. Communication: I had to ask what I was doing wrong, put that into consideration and change my mistake. Leadership Skills: I had to figure this out from my own experience, and put the initiative in to continue researching it. |
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