Castle Rock, WA, Rocket Garden - CRMS

06/16/2026

06/15/2026

Just a Sunday morning walk around the Rocket Garden.

Thank you Weyerhaeuser Thank you Kellogg Garden, Thank You Bloom Team
Thank You Staff and Volunteers
Thank You to ALL the donors, sponsors and hands who make this space possible for our students to learn and grow.

See a plant you have a question about? Ask!
Wonder how the students do something or grown something? Happy to share what they learned!

This week students and their teacher Ms Lowesly planted the rest of the summer annuals, sunflowers, eggplants and MORE!! The potato plants are looking great and those fruit trees are LOADED!!

06/14/2026

Whew! It’s WARM!

Just a reminder, that the garden area has surveillance cameras- and if you or your friends decided to break the branches off the cherry trees and blueberry bushes-
The school admin can identify folks from the video.

This garden is maintained by students and volunteers and we ask the community be respectful and not destroy the trees and plants.

Very sad this morning.

Fortunately there are a bunch of lovely flowers to cheer us up.

06/13/2026

The colors in the Rocket Garden are BEAUTIFUL!

Remember to water deeply after the heat of the day is gone or early before it warms up! Those veggies will need a little more care tomorrow and Monday.

And remember to water the gardener too!! Keep that water bottle handy!

06/10/2026

Such a great day yesterday to give back to their community with a planting project at the bakery.

05/14/2026

Bloom Team appreciates the community spirit and contributons to beautiful gardens and planters in Castle Rock by the students as they learn about Castle Rock flowers, vegetables and weeds!

05/07/2026

The Rocket Garden is really “Spring-ing” into Summer!!

Onions, potatoes, green beans, peas, rainbow chard, plenty of blossoms on the pansies and calendula to keep those pollinators coming. The Plums are thick this year! Yummm!

Sunflower seeds to compete in the America In Bloom Sunflower Display competition. The seeds were provided to entrants to start and grow into the “Most Unique Display” and we will be working with the Elementary School Blooming Generations Garden to create something MAGICAL.

Myyyy goodness check out the herb and native plants loooooking goooood.

Oh my we are really GROWING!!

04/09/2026

Castle Rock Blooms volunteer Sherisha came today and sanitized and washed the greenhouse and the containers that the students will use to start this seasons veggies go the garden! It was a nice warm afternoon!

Many thanks to the sponsors and donors who helped make this outdoor classroom garden area ROCK!! Weyerhaeuser Kellogg Garden Organics SERVPROCastle Rock FFA Chapter Castle Rock Community Development Alliance Castle Rock Middle School, Home of the Rockets Castle Rock School District, Home of the Rockets Bonnie Plants

Enjoy this time lapse of the process!

03/17/2026

Today was a fun sunny 😎 day! Students planted pansies and did some weeding and clean up in the back patio/garden area, moved soil to the MS campus so they can add it to the raised beds, picked up seeds to start in their greenhouse for cold season veggies to plant at The Villager Retirement home and in their garden beds on the Middle School Campus. Peas, Spinach, Lettuce to start an early green salad combo! 🥗 The Residents enjoyed their visit SO much. After they went back to their classroom, the smiles and energy was as warm as the temperature today!!

Thank you to ALL our donors and sponsors who make these wonderful things happen.

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03/06/2026

Oh My BERRIES! The 6 grade Gardening class have started their strawberry tree!

In one of the raised beds were LOTS of strawberries, but they dont produce all summer, so we thought— our bed level growing space can be limited- but we can grow UP!!!

So students began transplanting the strawberry pants into this AMAZING plant stand donated by Bloom Team Leads Nancy and Jim Chennault.

We can’t wait until it is just dripping with berries!! 🍓

Thank you to our donors and sponsors who make these smiles possible such as Weyerhaeuser; Fibre Federal Credit Union