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1. Veggie Bytes
November 2013 – January 2014 Volume 4, Issue 4
Inside this issue:
LSVI Garden 1
What’s Growing! 2
What’s Cooking 2
Book Review 2
Insects 4
Garden Grants 4
Featuring You!!! 5
Visit our website
www.LSUAgCenter.com
William B. Richardson,
LSU Vice President for
Agriculture
Louisiana State University
Agricultural Center
Louisiana Agricultural
Experiment Station
Louisiana Cooperative
Extension Service
LSU College of Agriculture
The LSU AgCenter is a
statewide campus of the
LSU System
and provides equal oppor-tunities
in programs and
employment.
Louisiana School for the Visually Impaired Plants a Fall Garden!
The 4-H Club at Louisiana School for
the Visually Impaired gathered on
Tuesday, October 22, 2013 to en-hance
their school garden. With the
help of their teacher and leader, Mr.
Gueltig, and other teachers and school
administrators, the middle school club
members planted six different vegeta-bles
in six different beds from seeds
The idea to contain one kind of
vegetable to each bed came about
in order to help visually impaired
students identify the different veg-etables
– spinach, radishes, onions,
cauliflower, and lettuce – by means
of their sense of touch and smell.
Students plan on reaping the fruits
of their labor at the end of the se-mester
by cooking the vegetables
and creating tasty meals! Ms. Abby
Greenbaum is the lead 4H agent
working with this project!

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Vegetables to plant in January
Beets, broccoli, cabbage, carrots,
cauliflower, collards, English and
snow peas and Irish potatoes can be
planted directly into the garden.
Plant transplants of lettuce, mustards,
and onions. Start Seeds indoors for
eggplant and tomatoes.
Vegetables to plant in November
Beets, carrots, collards, mustard greens,
radishes, turnips, and spinach can all be
directly seeded into the garden.
Seed cabbage, celery, lettuce, and
Swiss chard as transplants for later
planting. Plant individual toes of garlic
and shallots directly in the garden.
Vegetables to plant in December
What’s Growing!
Beets, carrots, collards, mustard greens,
radish, spinach, and turnips can all be
directly seeded into the garden.
Plant your transplants you started in No-vember
into the garden. These include
cabbage, celery, lettuce, and Swiss
chard.
If you can still find garlic and shallot
transplants, you can also plant these in
December. Don’t forget you can plant
onion sets too!
Start seeds (indoors) for cabbage, broc-coli,
and cauliflower. You can plant these
transplants in January! Remember ….only
plant these seeds if you have a student
or teacher who can care for them over
the holidays.
What’s Cooking!
Carrot soufflé is a great way to get kids to eat vegetables because it’s so sweet it
almost tastes like sweet potato pie! Try this recipe and your students will be sure to
love it. Even adults love this recipe!
Directions
Cook carrots until they are soft
Put ingredients into a processor and
process until smooth
Pour into greased baking pan
Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour
What You’ll Need
1 1/2 lbs. carrots, cooked
6 -8 tbsp. butter
3 eggs
1/4 cup flour
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
3/4-1 cup sugar
2 tbsp. brown sugar
1/4 tsp. cinnamon
Grease for baking pan
A Seed is Sleepy by Dianna Hutts Aston may
have a calming effect on students. It
teaches the value of not rushing
beauty, growth, and maturity. Stu-dents
will learn that good things
come in different shapes and sizes.
This book is appropriate for students
in grade 2-8, although students of
all ages should enjoy it as multiple life lessons can
be learned. After reading this story try this excellent
activity that goes along with it!
https://www.bookitprogram.com/redzone/read_do/
Seeds/ASeedisSleepy.ai.pdf
The Ugly Vegetables by Grace Lin is a
beautiful story of a young girl and her mother’s vegeta-ble
garden. The young girl would like to grow flowers
because she believes the neighbors garden is more
beautiful than her vegetable garden. Only after, her
mother prepares a vegetable soup that the neighbors
all love, does the young girl find value in her mothers
vegetable garden.
This story encourages chil-dren
how to be unique and con-fident
in themselves and is ap-propriate
for ages 3-7.
Book Reviews

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Don’t Forget to Scout Gardens For Insects!
Even though it’s winter, insects are still active in the garden. Each week, look
under leaves for worms, stink bugs, aphids and other critters that will eat all
your hard work. Also be on the look-out for Beneficial's like ladybugs and
butterfly larvae (caterpillars).
Cabbage Loopers and Fall armyworms can usually be spotted on
crops such as broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower! Watch out for these
pesky insects!
2014 Youth Garden Grant info
Since 1982, National Gardening Association has provided the Youth Garden Grant to over 5,000 schools,
nonprofits, and youth programs across the United States. Youth Garden Grant has contributed over 2.8 million
dollars in funding to youth gardening initiatives and serves as National Gardening Association’s longest
standing grant program. This year, Youth Garden Grant is sponsored by NGA’s generous donor base with
contributions from Bonnie Plants, Ames, and High Mowing Organic Seeds. Twenty awards will be offered this
year to support programs in the United States. The value of the YGG packages are $1,000!
WHO IS ELIGIBLE TO APPLY
To be eligible for the 2014 Youth Garden Grant, your school or organization must plan to plant a garden in
2014 with at least 15 children between the ages of 3 and 18. The selection of winners is based on the
demonstrated relationship between the garden program and education related to the environment, health and
nutrition issues, character education, and entrepreneurship in the United States. Youth Garden Grants (YGG) will
provide 20 schools or youth programs with a $500 gift certificate to the Gardening with Kids online store.
Each program will also receive a tool package from
Ames, plant starts from Bonnie Plants, a raised bed
from Rustic Cedar and a generous seed donation
from High Mowing Seeds.
SUBMISSION PROCESS:
Due Date: Applications must be submitted
by December 6th, 2013.
ONLINE APPLICATION:
Visit http://grants.kidsgardening.org/
Are You Looking for Other Grant Opportunities for your School’s Garden? Visit Our website for other Funding Opportunities!
http://www.lsuagcenter.com/en/lawn_garden/school_gardens/funding_sources/index.htm

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We’d Like to Feature YOU in Veggie Bytes!
But first we need your information. The LSU AgCenter would like to update our School Garden online map. Please help
us locate you so we can work harder to make gardening easier for you. Each school that sends us information will be
featured on the School Gardens of Louisiana Map and we will also send you broccoli seeds for your school garden.
Thanks for your input and helping us serve you better! Please return this form to Dr. Kiki Fontenot using whatever meth-od
is easiest for you.
Email: kkfontenot@agcenter.lsu.edu
Fax: 225-578-1068
Mail: 163 JC Miller Hall, 110 Union Square Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803
School Name ____________________________________________
School Address __________________________________________
Teacher(s) Name(s) that maintain the garden and use it with students
_____________________________________________
_____________________________________________
_____________________________________________
Grade Level(s) of students that parƟcipate in the garden ____________________________________
Do you parƟcipate in the Junior Master Gardener Program? Y / N
Circle the fruits and veggies that you typically plant in the garden
Tomatoes Greens ( Mustard or Collards) Figs
Eggplant Carrots Apples
Cucumbers Broccoli Peach
Melons (watermelon, cantaloupe) Cauliflower Pear
Pumpkins or gourds Brussels sprouts Loquat
Radish LeƩuce May haw
Peppers Swiss chard Pawpaw
Squash or zucchini Cabbage Blueberries
Sweet corn Spinach Blackberries
Beets Strawberries Other
Turnips Citrus ________________
Tell us what kind of informaƟon you need to help make your garden more successful.
___________________________________________________
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If you submit a picture of your garden or students working in the garden, we’d be
happy to use it in our online map!
Thank you for your Ɵme!!!!!!
Growing Gardens!
Kathryn “Kiki” Fontenot, PhD
155 JC Miller Hall
Baton Rouge, La 70803
November 2013 —January 2014