Kaitlynn's Garden!

Welcome to my page!

Garden Plan:

June Leadership Project:

Intern Profile

Hello, my name is Kaitlynn Samp!

This is my second year working at the Dallas Youth Garden, and I am going to be Senior at DHS.

I want to work at the garden because:

I enjoy gardening and helping others.

Two of my personal goals for working at the Dallas Youth Garden this summer are:

1.) To learn new ways to take care of my garden/Help others learn new ways to take care of their own gardens.

2.) To have fun and get to know the other interns.

Rows of produce planted:

About seventeen and a half, I had extra room to plant some more tomatoes so I did.

Number of different types of produce:

Roughly fifteen kinds of produce, counting the experimental plants.

Planned Garden Yield:

Roughly 282 lbs, not counting the experimental plants.

My Garden did not match my plan because:

I had some extra room to plant tomatoes on my final row so I planted more.

Garden Log:

Two things I hope to learn while working at the Dallas Youth Garden are:

1.) How to take care of the experimental plants and to learn about what they need to grow.

2.) New ways to take care of garden pests and weeds.

I think my biggest challenge will be:

Keeping up with the weeds.

My favorite vegetable or fruit is:

Rainbow carrots and raspberries!

I think a leader is:

Someone who takes time to listen to everyone's opinions and makes decisions based on what will benefit the whole group and the opinions of each member of the group.

I hope to contribute this leadership skill to the garden this season:

I hope to contribute the ability to be helpful and optimistic!

July Leadership Project:

Problem: What can be done with the produce from our gardens?

Solution: I created a blog to post recipies I come up with or find that use the produce from our gardens.

Test/Activity: I used a recipe for chocolate chip cookies and revised it to make chocolate zucchini cookies.

Results: I tested my recipe and brought the cookies to work to share with the other interns.

Communication: I presented my recipe and cookies, as well as posted the recipe on my blog, which can be found here.

Leadership Skills: Self Direction, the ability to know how to organize tasks and stay on task to meet the goal or finish the task you have set/decided on.

September Leadership Project:

Problem: How do we help future Interns to not make the same mistakes as we did, or learn to produce more from their garden?

Solution: As a group, we decided to write a few things we learned this year while at the garden.

Test/Activity: We gathered results and wrote them here.

Results: I learned that in my garden, the end is very clay like soil and it is best to grow flowers in. Zucchini, Squash, and cucumbers need to be grown on hills or in the front half of the garden. Cucumbers need to be planted first, kept well weeded and watered. Tomatoes do amazing in the the very front of the garden (about 2-3 rows in).

Gophers are a big problem and so are bugs, so squash down feeding holes and keep the grassy weeds down.

Communication: Presenting this idea to the group and typing it up here.

Leadership Skills: Self Direction, the ability to know how to organize tasks and stay on task to meet the goal or finish the task you have set/decided on.

July 30: weeded and watered my garden

Aug 1-3: weeded and watered my garden

Aug 6-10: picked and got ready for fair, sold peaches at fair

Aug 13-17: weeded and watered my garden

Aug 20-24: weeded and watered my garden

Aug 27-

June Leadership Project:

The website I used for my June project can be found here!

August Leadership Project:

Problem: What can be done with the produce from our gardens?

Solution: I created a blog to post recipies I come up with or find that use the produce from our gardens.

Test/Activity: I made a soup using various vegetables that are grown in our garden and with a few others.

Results: I tested my recipe, wrote down the measurements and brought the soup to work to share with the other interns.

Communication: I presented my recipe and soup and will be posting my recipe on my blog soon.

Leadership Skills: Self Direction, the ability to know how to organize tasks and stay on task to meet the goal or finish the task you have set/decided on.

Pictures:

My recipe blogs can be found here on here, and my picture blog can be found here! I also post tips and other cool garden/baking related things on my blogs!