Oakland Gardens Watering Community Garden (08/30/2024)

This was AYLUS Oakland Gardens 117th event. Today, August 30, 2024, from 5:00 to 6:30, we were watering the plants in P.S 319Q Community Garden for the last time this summer due to school reopening. Our members had to go to school and couldn’t attend these events anymore. Many people were grateful for our help and they walked up to us thanking us for helping the community.  Due to the heat the plants were dehydrated and  needed water. We watered the plants, rehydrated them, and pulled their weeds making sure that the weeds wouldn’t fight for the water and take it.

When we went to the garden today we noticed something looked different. This time the floor was covered in wood chips. This was for the kids as they love to run around playing and having fun in these gardens, but if you fall it would be very painful to skid across the ground. So to prevent this happening they put wood chips so you wouldn’t skid and therefore it was less painful. After we removed the weeds we realized many tomatoes were ready to be picked and eaten. So, we got a big plastic bag and started picking tomatoes and putting them in the bag, making sure they were red and not rotting. There were so many tomatoes that we ended up filling half the huge bag with tomatoes. The bag was very heavy, but then we realized there were more things than the tomatoes. It was green bell peppers! As we plucked the peppers one of our members noticed another pepper, which was a bit smaller than the other ones. This was because this pepper was not a green bell pepper it was a jalapeño! This was the first jalapeño we had found.

 

In the end we had fun taking care of the garden and making sure we had made the garden a better place for everyone else. Making sure the community had lots of fruits and vegetables to eat, like tomatoes, bell peppers, and since today we discovered that we have also provided the community with jalapeños.

 

Our volunteers:

Hong Hao Liu: 1.5 hours

Jia Qi Liu: 1.5 hours

Sophia ShiHan You: 1.5 hours

Aiden Lin : 1.5 hours

Stephanie ShiRan You: 1.5 hours

Brandon Lin : 1.5 hours

Matthew Lin: 1 hour

 

Parent Adviser Team:

Teng Fei Liu: 2 hours

Hsinhui Liao: 2 hours

Cui Fang Li: 2 hours

 

Report Written by: Stephanie ShiRan You

Reviewed by: Jia Qi (Angela) Liu

Updated: September 2, 2024 — 3:27 am

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