For our Garden Club meeting, we taste tested three kinds of pumpkin pie: a grocery store one, a traditional Libby's pumpkin pie with a box mix crust and a whole wheat, fresh organic pumpkin pie AND three creamy toppings - organic home made whipped cream, canned Redi-Whip and Cool Whip. The grocery store pie was the favorite and all the creamy toppings got a thumbs up! But we did discuss the unpronounceable items in the commercial products and how much sugar things have (about 4 grams = 1 teaspoon) - for instance, one can of Coca-Cola has TEN teaspoons of sugar.
October was all about the pumpkin! The plants that were planted last Spring by our students produced 25 pumpkins - enough for each class to have one. It was a lot of fun work for the Garden Helpers and Garden Club, with plenty of pumpkin seeds to roast and enjoy.
For our Garden Club meeting, we taste tested three kinds of pumpkin pie: a grocery store one, a traditional Libby's pumpkin pie with a box mix crust and a whole wheat, fresh organic pumpkin pie AND three creamy toppings - organic home made whipped cream, canned Redi-Whip and Cool Whip. The grocery store pie was the favorite and all the creamy toppings got a thumbs up! But we did discuss the unpronounceable items in the commercial products and how much sugar things have (about 4 grams = 1 teaspoon) - for instance, one can of Coca-Cola has TEN teaspoons of sugar.
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It was time to put the summer garden to rest - our students cleared out the old tomato, pepper, eggplants etc. and returned them to the earth via our compost bin. Thanks to our friends at Kellogg Garden Products, we replenished the raised beds and began covering a former weed patch with cardboard and mulch. Through the generosity and support of Kaiser Permanente, downey, it will become our tropical/subtropical orchard.
So far, the Garden Helpers and Garden Club have planted peas, four types of carrots, two kinds of red onions, two kinds of bunching onions, four varieties of lettuce, spinach, two varieties of radishes, two types of beets and eight kinds of garlic. And it's just the beginning of the season!!! There will be many more vegetables to come. |
Kathleen IrvineCertified Horticulturist, Artist, Teacher Categories
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