Readying the WOLF for Summer!!

During the last couple of weeks of school, we got busy preparing our beds for the long, hot summer!  The Turk Family helped the 4th Grade ready their bed for the summer heat by separating and thinning out some of the veggies.   They also applied diluted fish and seaweed emulsion to stimulate the roots, and mulched with old newspaper and cotton burr compost. 

Paul from Living Earth stopped by to give us some tips on how to plant and water in the particular type of soil that we have in our beds.  He also fertilized with pure Nitrogen to enrich the soil for the new plants.

We started noticing some new visitors that have begun to come in and enjoy the WOLF... We have had sightings of several monarch butterflies as well as a humming bird or two!!  This guy hung around the entire time my class was in the WOLF one day.  He flitted around the butterfly garden and then decided to check out the humming bird feeder!

**I apologize for the length of time that it took for me to update The Blooming WOLF!  I was having some technical difficulties that I think are fixed, so expect a new update every week.  If you are working in the WOLF this summer and would like to add your pictures to the blog, just email them to me at emily.turner@wylieisd.net !!  

Happy Gardening!!