Garden Cleanup Round 4

This round of garden cleanup, I did many things around the campus and in the school garden.  The main things that I worked on were weeding, both in the garden and the student parking lot, but also helping other students out with their own special ESLP project.  The jobs I did could be summed up as minor cleaning but also helping construct the foundation of a new addition to the school garden.

The first job that I did that was where I spent most of my time on was getting rid of the weeds in the center part of the student parking lot.  The middle area of the student parking lot has gone through a lot of changes of the course of many years.  A while back a bunch of students planted plants in the centerpiece of the parking lot as a part of their ESLP project.  Since then, the plants have grown a lot but also caused a lot of weeds or smaller plants to grow in the same area of land.  So me, along with other students, got rid of a bunch of the weeds in the area as shown in the pictures below.  There was a lot to get rid of including some trash.  This job was only temporary and eventually, some other students will have to redo the job.  Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures in the main garden, but I was able to remove a large portion of the weeds that were close by the plants from the Story of the Seed projects.

The other main job that I did was helping partners with a new addition to the garden.  The objective was to add a pathway along the side of the shed to get behind the shed and to other parts of the garden a little bit easier than before.  The first step of their project was dig out a pathway and to level the ground to add a gravel or some material to form the final product.  My help involving trimming the ground to make as level as possible.  The end of that step is shown below.

Overall, I did a good amount of work not only in the garden, but on other areas of the school campus.  The pathway behind the shed will remain a permanent part of the school garden.  However, next year there will have to be other students to redo the weeding.