garden

What’s Sprouting Now? It’s November!

The green sprouts you see in the garden along 1st and Denton Streets are cover crops. At the garden winterization workday on Saturday November 7th, volunteers planted buckwheat, crimson clover, hairy vetch and white clover to help protect and nourish the soil over the winter. These hard-working cover crops (also known as green manure) will…

Sunflower Roots Creep Deep

Phytoremediation: The Power of the Sunflower The Inclusions garden bounty of sunflowers was hard to miss this season. It included bright orange and yellow flowers deliberately planted by the pre-K students, as well as so called “volunteers”, which came from sunflowers from the previous year. The 2014 flowers dropped seeds into sidewalk crevices and those seeds…