A Visit to the Garden

On Friday, our class visited the Lowell Learning Garden. We helped to harvest two kinds of vegetables: tomatoes and beans.

We picked two kinds of beans, purple beans and rattlesnake beans. We will let these beans dry in our classroom over the next week, and then we will take them out of the shell. When they are dry, they can be stored to cook with or to plant again in the spring.

We also picked Pink Brandywine tomatoes, a very old variety that you cannot buy in the grocery store. We learned that you can pick green tomatoes, and hang them upside down to ripen to red! Our tomatoes are hanging in our classroom, slowly turning red.

We worked with a gardener named Victoria who was very helpful in teaching us about the garden and these plants. Thank you, Victoria!

We make careful scientific observational drawings of our vegetables. We added labels to show which parts were which.