Wednesday 20 August 2014

Wednesday 20th August 2014

Blog post by Justine with photo support from Grace B.

Another overcast day in the garden today but that didn't stop us digging for buried treasure.  Today we harvested our crop of potatoes - always a favourite activity for the children.  We dug up over 50 medium to large potatoes and lots of little ones.  Anija and Evie did some great maths working out how many potatoes each garden club member could eat as well as coming up with some good recipe ideas for using the potatoes next week during our cooking session.  Chips and wedges were very popular suggestions.
 Along with our potatoes we also had an excellent crop of worms.  The soil in the potato garden was dark and rich looking and crumbles well between your fingers so it is obviously a good place for worms and good soil for growing vegetables.
 Our final job for the day was to give the play garden a tidy up.  The children pulled out the weeds, added some fresh soil and rearranged the toys so that the garden now looks inviting to play in once again.

Wednesday 6 August 2014

6 August 2014


Blog post by Justine

A rather windy day in the garden today but we got a lot achieved.  The garden underneath Mrs Hahn's office window is now planted with lots of flowers which will hopefully give a beautiful display of colour later in the year.

When planting out the seedlings we looked at the estimated height of all the plants and positioned them accordingly in the garden.  Tall plants like stock and
antirrhinum (try saying that fast!) went at the back.  In the middle of the garden we planted statice and polyanthus, and in the front little orange and purple violas.


 
 
The flanders poppy seeds that we planted last week in the little pots have all sprouted.  When they are bigger we will plant them in our ANZAC garden along with the ladybird poppies we planted today.
 
Finally a really big THANK YOU! to everyone who helped, donated and purchased at the mini-market day yesterday.  We made $130.00 which will help us to buy new resources and also give us money towards purchasing a garden shed.