Lenna's okra blossom"Today I learned how to paint leaves on picture frames. Mr. Marlin talked about diseases on plants and how diseases spread" - Baylee
"I killed aphids in my garden today" - Josie
Josie's squash is infested with aphids, so Josie and Lexie picked them off today. This was a good lead-in to today's lesson about diagnosing problems in the garden. The young gardeners learned what kinds of things affect their plants, like animals, insects, the environment and diseases. They have seen insect and animal damage, and disease (bacterial wilt). They learned how to diagnose problems by looking at the symptoms, and comparing to normal plant conditions.
After the lesson, we worked on the picture frames we painted a few weeks ago. We took leaves from the gardens, put a layer of green paint on them, and pressed them on the frames to transfer the leaf print. The results were pretty cool!
Josie took this picture of her purple pepper
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