Youth Energy Summit

Healthy Bodies, Healthy World
Health Professions High School
Muzammil Afzal, Jacqueline Dao, Luis Gutierrez
Mentor: Dana Jenks

   The HPHS Garden has had some ups and downs. The garden was planted and then the district gardners accidentally sprayed the plants with Round-up. We replanted with the help of master gardner Bill Maynard. We discovered that the plants were not getting enough water and the soil was in bad shape, so we applied some worm castings and sheet mulch and increased the watering time. The plants grew, but alas we did not have control over the water. The over watering has suffocated our plants. We let the district know that the water needed to be turned down, but the schedule was not changed, so we did not get the yield we wanted. However, we learned about soil horizons and the importance of hummus and water for soil tilth. We also learned that we need control of our water in order to make the garden successful.

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