With summer just around the corner, now is the perfect time to start planting a garden in your yard.
Most students don’t want to try planting a garden, but rather leave it to their parents. However, putting the work into a garden can be a great hobby and makes the final product seem, and taste, even better.
“We like fresh grown vegetables,” freshman Jacquelyn Hall-Yurasits said.
Pennsylvania weather is perfect for crops such as tomatoes, zucchini, carrots, pepper, and corn. Right now the first flowers are coming up everywhere, from bulbs planted in the fall.
Now is the perfect time to plant bulbs that will come up in late summer. Bulbs don’t take much time to grow and look great. Plant them in the spring, and water them frequently. By late summer, they will bloom, and can be as tall as five feet.
Many people enjoy gardening and find it is a great way to get outside and enjoy nice weather.
“It gave me something to do so I wasn’t bored,” freshman Olivia Searfass said, ”and it got me outside when it was nice out.”
Bulbs planted in the fall are the first ones to come up now and a way to all of sudden see all this beauty.
“I associate flowers with springtime and good smells,” freshman Lauren Wolf said.
Planting flowers is an awesome pastime, and is quite exciting when flowers will come up year after year once you have planted them, bringing a sudden burst of color.
