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Comment on How Does Your Garden Grow? by Among Friends

Among Friends — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:35:58 +0000

Good Morning Green Friends!
Here’s the latest from the Garden! Rich and I made five cages for the cucumbers to climb up. There are more than five plants so we set them up in groups of three. Two plants are each in a cage with the third’s vines training to the cage on either side.This will keep the vines from choking out the zucchini and crooked acorn squash and allow for more fruit to grow! I have three caged cucumbers and three on the ground at home and we are getting about 10 cucumbers every day! At that rate we will be able to have every class eating cucumbers and ranch dip for snacks! Yea! The Banana Peppers are ready to harvest and I’m looking to take a video of our First Harvest. It should happen soon since the mature peppers need to come off in order to grow more! We have lots of Green Peppers almost ready to go as well. The tomato plants are filling up. My three plants at home are loaded with tons of green tomatoes, so our garden is not far behind! Our herbs are doing ok but they really took a beating from the heat. That’s all for now, ~Donna

Comment on Chicago Roller Snakes In-Line Hockey Club Visit Friendship Village by Roller Blades Skates - Mission BSX Senior Inline Hockey Skates

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Comment on Handymen Dig Into a Project at Hoover School by Shirley Odegaard

Shirley Odegaard — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:52:25 +0000

June 30, 2010– The fence and gate have been installed. The corn, tomatoes, peppers, and flowers have been planted. The rain barrels have arrived and are ready to be placed around the greenhouse. now we watch everything grow, enjoy the summer vacation time, and weed or water as needed, of course.

Comment on How Does Your Garden Grow? by Shirley Odegaard

Shirley Odegaard — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:26:50 +0000

Monday, June 21st was an exciting day at the greenhouse. Sod was torn up, post holes were dug, and there was lots of weeding! There were so many workers -teachers, seniors, students, employees from Lowe’s, and the principal, Jake Chung. AND the Daily Herald was taking pictures of all the activity.
Lowe’s has been amazing! Helping with everything – inclunding donating corn, tomato, and pepper plants. What a day! So much was accomplished and the weather co-operated for a change.

Comment on Not-So-Newlywed Game by tony dini

tony dini — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:31:11 +0000

thanks for putting on this great program we all loved it and had a great time.

Comment on How Does Your Garden Grow? by Sandhya Saikumar

Sandhya Saikumar — Sun, 23 May 2010 02:28:52 +0000

We’re really lucky to have you and your senior friends to join us in a great partnership between
Hoover School and Friendship Village.Even though I’m only in 4th grade,I really think that this is a great opportunity for you guys to have an extra curricular and we get a better chance to learn new things and you’ve probably learned new things too!!! I hope you are enjoying this experience because we sure are!!!

Comment on How Does Your Garden Grow? by Shirley Odegaard

Shirley Odegaard — Tue, 18 May 2010 21:06:05 +0000

The seniors from Friendship Village and the kids from Hoover School had another meeting at Hoover to “brainstorm” about what to plant in the three gardens at the school.
The greenhouse will be hydroponics. This is new to me. All of us have so much to learn about hydroponics. That’s growing plants in water (no soil).
One garden probably will be for pumpkins and gourds. What fun that will be in the fall!
The third garden will probably be tomatoes, green beans, peas, and who knows….
We talked about the weather not cooperating (too much rain) so the construction has been delayed.
Some of the kids would like to plant sunflowers outside the greenhouse. They can get to be 8 feet tall.
These kids are so smart and so intelligent, too. Gives us seniors hope for the future.
One of the seniors suggested we need some fencing to keep out the four legged critters in the area.
Now, that’s something more to think about.
All of us will be learning so much on this project. The Principal, Mr. Jake Chung has been so supportive! He is a wonder! The kids are so lucky to have him.

Comment on How Does Your Garden Grow? by Sarah Goodwin

Sarah Goodwin — Mon, 17 May 2010 14:45:10 +0000

This is an amazing partnership that has been created! We look forward to working with you throughout this process.

Comment on “Let’s Dance” Movie Premier by tony dini

tony dini — Sat, 15 May 2010 13:43:45 +0000

Great Pictures Donna, we all had a great time, thanks again for everything.

Comment on Resident Fitness Spotlight: Elaine Pekarek by Tom Johnson

Tom Johnson — Sun, 09 May 2010 13:14:19 +0000

Nice going, sis. I am one of Elaine’s brothers and we will celebrate her achievement next week. We are all proud of you!