My humble garden.
Welcome to virtual school! Our food class, like all other classes at GCE, is online due to the stay-at-home guidelines across Illinois. Digitally, though, we have been able to connect on Zoom for our daily classes, where we have learned about healthy soil and nutrients. We read a book titled "One Straw Revolution" and we watched a movie called Dirt!. Although it prompted some thinking about what makes for a healthy gardening ecosystem. With that in mind, it was time to create our own garden! We received some soil and seeds -- our GCE 'Lab Kits" arrived in the mail -- and with that I could plant a small garden container. First, though, I had to test the soil for primary macrnutrients using soil capsules (also received in the GCE lab kit). I created a soil solution and dropped my capsule in. Notice the orange color of the water after the soil test capsule was dissolved in the water -- this indicates a high level of potassium in the soil. That's good -- i