Blueberry Patch!

Hello all!

Over the course of the past few weeks the Horticulture students have been working on several projects around campus. One of those projects has been the installation of a "Blueberry Patch". We hope that this new planting will do several things - 1. Provide blueberries! 2. Encourage wildlife habitation 3. Create a spot of beautiful fall color.
Instead of me telling you the steps we performed to install these shrubs, I will instead provide pictures and have students tell what we did.

STUDENTS - using the pictures above as your guide, tell our readers the steps we took to install the blueberry patch!

Happy Halloween!

On Halloween the CATEC Hort students had a lesson on flower parts and fruit parts. To accompany this lesson the students disected a "Stargazer Lily".

After our dissection of the lily we had a pumpkin carving contest! During the contest Students had to find and display the four parts of fruit as found in the pumpkin.

Unfortunately our camera batteries died before I could get a picture of our winning pumpkin, carved by our 10th grade exploratory students, Tank and Brandon, so I've included some other photos that I did get.

STUDENTS - 1. What are the four main parts of the flower and what do they do? 2. What would be another profession that may need to know the parts of fruit? 3. Tell me what your favorite berry, and hesperidium are?

Bulb Planting Begins!

Hello All! Today we began planting bulbs on campus! We had been waiting for the daytime tempuratures to consistently be around 65 or slightly below, and those days have finally come! The first to go into the ground are the Dutch Master Tulips and the Giant Crocus.
Please enjoy the Bulb Demonstration Video.

Next week we learn how to use the bulb auger! (We learn everything by hand first!)