Hampton High School Garden and Greenhouse
34 Elizabeth Ave E5N 8H1 Hampton, NB, Canada

Lots of progress this week ! Many thanks for the help we received from the Leadership Class ! - they spread out over 100 bags of collected leaves, ... - they filled two composters with a mix of horse manure and wood chips, and - they completed the digging a trench for our water source See more

On Friday, we have the second half of the Leadership Class out, and we started weeding in the Food Forest. We are doing 'Chop and Drop' weeding here - because we want to build up the organic material in the garden, we are leaving the weeds in place, and they will be covered with leaves and then wood chips later in the fall.

Many thanks to Mike R, who brought his tractor out to cover the beds the Leadership Class had prepared.

We had students from the Leadership Class at the garden this week. We were able to spread the last of the leaves collected last fall - just in time to start collecting more ! The recipe we are following here is : - apply a thick layer of leaves - sprinkle with compost, to help inoculate the composting process... - apply a thick layer of wood chips Our plan here is to maintain the wood chip layer to reduce the weeds, and make them easier to pull. When it's time to plant, we will move the wood chips aside to expose the soil beneath, and plant. When the seedlings are large enough, the wood chip layer can be replaced around the stem.

We are going to Hampton Community Garden tomorrow, 10am, to pick tomatoes from the plants that were started in the Biology lab just before March Break...

Work day - Saturday, Aug 11 - 10am Please RSVP :)

We will not be hosting a work day at the garden this Saturday (July 25)

What an awesome work party! We topped up the herb garden with compost, made stepping stone paths, planted herbs - bee balm, lemon balm, oregano, thyme, walking onions, and sage, and gave the whole bed a thick cover of mulch to help keep the moisture.

The weekly work party will take place on Saturday, 10:00-12:00. Plan is to plant herbs in the newly installed herb bed, and to finish spreading leaves for mulch!

No work party tomorrow :(

We will be at the garden tomorrow, Saturday, at noon for a work party :) All are welcome to join us, or just come for a quick tour of the garden.

If anyone is available, we will be at he garden at noon today for a short work party :) Bring Water !

What's this, then? Haskaps are ripe and yummy (we did a taste test!). Coming up are cherries, black currants, and (eventually) blueberries.

This coming Saturday (June 20), we will meet at 10am, at the greenhouse. We will be extracting and screening compost from our two bins, and potting up tomatoes and peppers.

Forecast for tomorrow looks good ! We will be meeting at the garden at noon :) We will continue the work spreading leaves and wood chips, and we will be starting the herb garden.

We have berries! The haskaps and the black currants have set fruit! Check out the pictures. So exciting! Also - this week we have apples, sour cherries, blueberries, and Aronia flowering. Going to be a tasty summer :)

Daniel Smith assembled and tested the "wet end" of our solar water pumping system today. We have a bilge pump, a check value, and a float switch in a crate, which needed to be connected, soldered, and then protected with a water-proof tape splice. We now have (battery-powered) water at the Garden :)... (Solar is the next step)