Wednesday 30 July 2014

30 July 2014

Blog post by Justine

Great to have the sun shining today as we got out and gave the raised vege garden beds a much needed weed.  The children enjoyed seeing what had grown over the holidays, what had gone to seed and what was almost ready for harvesting.  Quite a bit of restraint had to be shown so that the potatoes and carrots were not pulled out along with the weeds.

We also filled little paper pots with seed raising mix today and sowed some more Flanders poppy seeds for the garden beside the office.  Hopefully these will germinate in the next two weeks. When the seedlings are big enough we will transplant them in their little paper pots straight into the garden.  The pots will decompose in the soil so there will be no rubbish to get rid of.


Next week on Tuesday the 5th of August we will be having a mini-market day from 2.45- 3.15pm to sell produce from our garden.  If anyone has any fruit, veges or seedlings that they would like to donate for us to sell then please drop them off at the office on Tuesday morning.  We are fundraising to buy resources for garden club and also a garden shed to keep our tools and equipment in. We look forward to seeing all there and we thank you in advance for your support of our garden club!

Wednesday 23 July 2014

23 July 2014





Wednesday 23rd July 2014

Blog post by Justine

Welcome back to Garden Club for Term 3!  We are hoping for more settled weather and more opportunities to get out into the garden this term as we have quite a few things planned as we head towards spring.

Some of our plans for this term include:
- Weeding and feeding our existing crops
- Sowing seeds for our spring crops
- Developing the wildflower and ANZAC poppy gardens
- Creating some garden art
- Cooking with our delicious produce
- Holding a mini-market day to sell our produce to raise money towards a garden shed.

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We got started on our gardening for this term by spending some time in the orchard today.  There were lots of sneaky invasive weeds in and around our fruit trees so we pulled lots of these out. We also planted lots of daffodil bulbs that were really desperate to get into the ground.  Hopefully they will flower for us this year. We also divided up some of the garlic bulbs that we must have missed when we harvested the garlic last year.  This is a bit of an experiment to see if the individual cloves will fatten up into bulbs.  We will have to give them lots of food to help them grow.

Otis and Ben also spent a lot of time building a house for some baby snails and a spider that Otis found underneath a big rock.  Hopefully the snails will stay in their beautiful house and not come out to eat our plants!