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Two of my personal goals for working at the Dallas Youth Garden this summer are: gain experience and better the community
Two things I hope to learn for working at the Dallas Youth Garden are: how to garden and how yo make friends
I think my biggest challenge will be: the bureaucracy
My favorite vegetable is: beans
My least favorite garden task is: seeding
My most favorite garden task is: weeding
I think a leader is: there is a key difference between a commander and a leader, and that difference is the definition
My worst leadership skill or trait is: pacing
My best leadership skill or trait is: keeping morale up
Garden Plan: (from west to east)
cabbage
broccoli
beans
lettuce
radishes (icicle)
cucumbers
tomatoes
zucchini
zucchini
beans
beans
beans
chard
beans
My favorite plant to plant was: beans
My lease favorite plan to plant was: zucchini
I think my plan worked because: it was flexible
Garden Log:
May 14-28: its been a long two weeks bit its been worth it, my beans and radishes are doing so well they're drowning each other, my broccoli are past my knees ,and my cabbages are as big around as car tires, only four more months .
June 2nd : not much in my field other than enough straw to feed every cow from here to Berlin.
June 9th : still little has changed, my beans are doing well.
June 16th : the bees are doing well for the given circumstances.
June 23rd : the open house is soon so we have to make our garden look nice
June 30th : the open house has come and i got 22lbs of lettuce , and ill be promoted to cadet airman in a matter of hours
August 6th : not much eventful, but i do see a couple flower in my beans, and i think i have an odd crossbreed squash
August 13th: im starting to get tomatoes
August 20th: would it be possible to make sunflower seeds from theses
August 27th: school is almost here
September 7th: two more days of work and I'm done
Leadership Projects: Bank Accounts
Problem: being able to have financial independence
Solution: setting up bank account
Test: i set up a bank account
Document Results: due to the bank account I've been able to budget my remaining money easier and still have about $20 left
Communication: sitting down with a Wells Fargo representative and opening an account
Leadership: taking the affirmative to open my own account
Leadership Projects: booth work
Problem: How do i draw attention at the master gardeners booth at summer fest
Solution: wearing my BDUs
Test: when it was my shift at the master gardeners both i wore my BDUs and stood at easy until someone came by the booth at which point i would stand at attention
Document Results: i got 2 more contacts than Seth who did not wear BDUs
Communication: if you draw attention, be ready to talk
Leadership Projects: square zuchs
Problem: zuch have alot of wasted space when being packed
make the zuchs square
test: run the math
Document Results: a sphere has about 33% wasted space when packed as where a square has close to 0%
Communication: translating raw data into something meaningful
leadership: garden inmprovment
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