Kayla's Garden
Intern Profile
I want to work at the garden because:
I want to work at the garden because I want to get even more experience with gardening and help out mu community.
Two of my personal goals for working at the Dallas Youth Garden this summer are:
1.To get my total yield
2, Not let the weeds take over
Two things I hope to learn for working at the Dallas Youth Garden are:
1. I hope I learn to become more outgoing
2. To learn how to communicate better
I think my biggest challenge will be:
Growing the cucumber in the right way
My favorite vegetable or fruit is:
My favorite vegetable is a zucchini because there are so many things you can do with it.
I think a leader is:
Is someone who can take charge and do it well, with other in mind.
I hope to contribute this leadership skill to the garden this season:
I hope to contribute helping people out and being clear with my communication
Garden Plan:
Vegetables and Flowers Planted:
Zinnias
Radish
cucumbers
marigolds
Tomato
carrots
peppers
yellow squash
zucchini
Beans
leeks
cabbages
Tomato
Acorn squash
pepper
Leeks
Radish
Rows of vegetables planted: 15
Number of different kinds of vegetables planted: 12
Planned Garden Yield: 335
Planned Biggest Producer: Tomato
Time Sheet:
May Days Off: 0
Extra Days: 0
Days Late:0
June Days Off: 1
Extra Days: 0
Days Late: 0
July Days Off: 2
Extra Days: 1
Days Late: 0
August Days Off: 1
Extra Days: 0
Days Late: 0
September Days Off: 0
Extra Days:0
Days Late: 0
Total Days Off:4
Final Thoughts:
My favorite vegetable was zucchini
Because: It produces the most in my garden.
My most productive vegetable was zucchini and I harvested xxxx Pounds.
My least productive vegetable was leeks and I harvested xxxx Pounds.
My total harvest for the year was 495.5 pounds Pounds.
My favorite job was: weeding my plants
My least favorite job was: was watering my plants
I could have done better at: picking
I did the best I could doing: pruning ny tomatoes
The two things I learned most at the garden this year were:
1. Water your plants the same amount of time.
2. Stay constant with weeding.
Garden Log:
May 4-9: This week we planned out are gardens and got stated planting. I planted 3 of my rows today.
May 11-16: We were able to plant more. I have 5 rows done already.
May 19-23: working on getting my all my plants planted
May 26-30: fished plating all my plants
June 2-6: watering and I thinned out my radishes
June 9-13: Intense weeding of my garden.
June 16-20: put Down hay in the gardens
June 22-25: weeding the rows without hay & weeding
June 30- July 4: weeding and pruning tomatoes
July 7-11 : I weeded and thinned my carrots.
July 14-18 : I worked on weeding my leek row and we put down fish fertilizer.
July 20-25: Watering and weeding my garden, also some picking.
July 28 -August 1: Good old weeding and watering.
August 4-8: Picking ,weeding ,and putting hay down on mt rows.
August 11-15: Weeding and watering my plants.
August 18-22: watering my plants and trimming tomatoes.
August 25-29: Picking vegetables and watering.
September 1-5: watering and picking.
June Leadership Project:
Problem: We need to make the garden more known about in the Dallas community.
Solution: Make an Instagram account to reach more people
Test/Activity: I will be taking a posting picture once a week for the garden so that way it can reach more people. https://www.instagram.com/i_love_plants88/
Results: do not have any yet
Communication: tell other about it
July Leadership Project:
Problem: We seem to have bad luck with the cucumber in are garden, and we don't seem to get a lot per year
Solution: To try different types and different ways of growing them.
Test/Activity: They two types I will try are spacemaster bush and Armenian cucumber and I tried growing some from starts and seed. They were grown in mounds typical way to grow squash.
Results: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12-OgZVbCU3T6Ca7cCDroshGilr_buIFwEYR28gW_elg/edit?usp=sharing In the link I talked about what I did and went into more detail about the results. I also have picked some good cucumber from a good plant
Communication:
August Leadership Project:
Problem: People need food in our community.
Solution: we give the food we grow to the people who want when the are picking up food boxes.
Test/Activity: gave out food to people.
Results: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1540tmZdN2yQMHeI_TQfMFkxv33Wrntz1KeMprnn0t3k/edit?usp=sharing
Communication: with group
Extra leadership Project:
Problem: There is food insecurity in Oregon. Some people have no idea where there next meal is coming from and that can be very scary. I am going to go over what food insecurity is and how many people it affects.
Solution: We need to know about food insecurity. What the main causes could be and a way for people to help if they can.
Test/Activity: To inform myself and other about it. I will write a paragraph on it for people to read.
Results: https://docs.google.com/document/d/15IsQzJWgx9OlEKGngcGgTFwQkq3vwwtz41WsitqSGlM/edit?usp=sharing
Communication: With Group