2015 Term 1 Summer

Room 4 working at The Garden this term 

Room 4 has been working hard getting the garden beds ready for our next crops, we have planted onions, silverbeet and rocket in garden bed 1. 

 Raising seeds and keeping them watered - We have sown broccoli and beetroot

 Keeping our pumpkin plant watered as this part of our garden is very dry

The mystery of the garden fairy : A few weeks ago a fairy appeared under our tomato plant
The children loved it and they say the fairy is looking after the vegetables when we are not there. We have no idea who may have put it there so we just would like to say " Thank you".

 This zucchini grew and grew and grew....it looks more like a marrow! 

 Our Zucchinis are almost ready to harvest 

Term 4 Spring /Summer

Using the calendula petals and the CTS olive oil, we have made Calendula Balm

The pots of balm were sold by the children at The Growables Event held at Founders Park in November

Our fundraiser to expand the veggie garden ! 

Label for the pots were designed by the children and the chosen label was Bella's from Room 15! 

TERM 4 Spring / Summer

Room 6 and Room 7 worked together in the vegetable garden this term:

Transplanting the tomatoes seedlings into bigger pots

Mixing the couch grass in the water container where we will leave it for 6 months before using it to feed the garden soil!  " Yuck! The old mixture is very stinky " 

Planting seeds in our potting shed 

We have found some cardboard and some silver paper in the recycling bin, so we have made some decorations for our Cherry Blossom Tree! 

We wrote a few quotes from the children and glued them to the decorations. Garden related quotes, of course ! Just to make sure they were all listening ! And... they were !! Great work Rooms 6 and 7 !!

TERM 3 WEEK 8

ROOM 15 in the garden

This week we gave a go at making our own Seed Raising Mix

We opened our compost bin and removed so of the compost.

We mixed some sand into the compost and then sieved it all into a fine mix.

We then sew some seeds into pots using our new mix! 

ROOM 2 in the garden
" We harvested the calendula flowers to start making some calendula balm" Grace
We talked about CALENDULAS, HOVER FLIES, APHIDS
" We tasted the green onion and it was delicious. Belissimo ! " Micah 
" The Hover-fly eats the aphids." Mella
" The green onion tastes good with the calendula petals" Uma

Term 3 Week 7

Room 15 in the Garden

Our PEA seedlings were big enough to be planted out.

So a group from ROOM 15 moved the stakes to a new place in the garden bed

Once the stakes were in they planted out the peas and watered them

PEAS need support as they grow! 

ROOM 2 in the garden
I brought the vegetable/fruit juicer in today and the children harvested the BEETROOT, CARROT, SILVERBEET and SPINACH
We also made APPLE and ORANGE juice and mixed it with the veggie juice!
IT was delicious, tasted by all, and of course some drunk more juice than others!
The important thing was : They all tried it ! Even those who said that they didn't like beetroots! 

Room 1 also made juice and had a few minutes to spare, so with their tummies full of veggie/fruit juice of they went to do some weeding ! GREAT JOB room 1 !

Term 3 Week 6

ROOM 2 in the garden

Working on a hard soil, breaking up the lumpy soil, adding the "vermicast" ( made by our lovely tiger worms) 

Added new calendula seeds to the new prepared soil.

Term3 Week 6

Room 1 in the garden !

It has been a dry week and no rain!

So ROOM 1 worked as a team to keep the hose from bending, and taking turns they WATERED the whole garden, once the garden soil was nice and moist it was easier to pull the weeds out! 

We also talked about our favourite veggies, we planted new seed in pots, and we watered them!