ESLP Garden Cleanup Round 4

For my final ESLP project of the year in Mr. Bursch's Honors Biology class, I decided to help out our school garden by helping cleanup the plants in the center of our student parking lot. With only a bucket and some shovels, I managed to make some great progress in cleaning up dead plants as well as picking up litter disposed on the soil.  I did so two weeks ago on Wednesday and Thursday with my fellow classmates.

5/16- During this day our teacher set us into to groups and sent us on our way to different locations in the garden or around the school to clean-up. He sent me and three of my classmates to the center of the student parking lot to clean up all of the trash and dead plants on the soil and around the larger plants in the center. Once there, we did a quick cleaning up and threw away all of the trash that was in our way. Next we took out our shovels and dug out little plants that were affecting our much larger and older plants that we wanted to keep because of how great they looked. Also because they were in a perfect spot and we would not want any other plants growing off of it to make it look almost gross. Finally we realized that this certain plant needed no water because it is meant for high heat and that made our job a lot easier.

5/17- Second day of our garden clean-up adventure. I got back into my same group and area and just went to work with cleaning anything that I could to make our spot look perfect. Mr Bursch came out and checked on us to see if we were doing the right thing and noticed that we should get really into the thick of the plant even though we were frightened by the bees....In conclusion this round of ESLP was not only fun to help keep our school looking "Shiny" but also was a great experience as I felt closer with my school and my garden.

Here are some pictures of our garden clean-up.......