The tomatoes that the lunch ladies supply at the salad bar are not from a store or other supplier like the other food at the salad bar. Those tomatoes are from the HHS garden. The gardening club helps weed and water the plants after school while Adam Goble’s horticulture class helps with it during the day.
“This class is called Bio 2 but we also call it horticulture informally,” said Goble.
Throughout the year, the garden has grown pumpkins which did not work well because they had too many bugs, tomatoes which just went out of season (the tomatoes used in the salad bar) and now is growing radishes.
Goble is not only in charge of the HHS garden but also has his own personal garden.
“So we generally grow things like zucchini, winter squash, tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers [in my garden],” Goble said.
This is the first year that the HHS garden has grown cherry tomatoes for the salad bar. There were different types of tomatoes including red cherry tomatoes, yellow pear tomatoes and Amy’s apricot tomatoes. In total they put in 21 types of cherry tomatoes.
HHS is saving money on growing their own tomatoes. “If you have the space it can be much cheaper to grow them on their own,” Goble said.
Even though it is cheaper to grow tomatoes than to buy them, they are still a lot of work to grow. You have to weed them, use some type of weed control, water them and use fertilizer on them.
Goble is the one in charge of the garden yet his favorite food in nothing that he grows.
“That is a tough question [what my favorite food is]. Pizza [is my favorite food] with some veggies on the top and some onions,” said Goble.