School is Out & the Gardening Season Has Just Begun.

While MHCA Students are starting to enjoy their first few days of summer break, our school garden is just beginning to take shape.

This year, the Garden Club was off to an early start prepping and building raised beds and amending the soil. At the same time our friend the groundhog started consuming a large portion of the tender transplants that we put out and it began making a mess out of the garden.

Believe it or not, groundhogs, also known as woodchucks, have been known to eat at least a pound and a half of food a day. At that rate it would have taken it no time to wipe out the entire garden, Finely the problem was solved by lining the back of the fence with chicken wire and installing a 9 foot gate at the entrance of the garden.

Most of the damaged plants were replaced and over the last few weeks things began to really take off. Our garden club members are very proud of this year's garden ( so far ) in spite of a few set backs.

Take a 2.5 minute tour of how the June garden is beginning to take form!