Planting seeds

Planting seeds 

The gardening club has been really busy weeding the planter boxes and tyre planters behind the back of room 1 and 2. 

Today, we planted seeds. We are growing: 

- Broccoli

- Carrots

- Leek

- Spring Onion

- Strawberries

- Peas

- Beans

Summer harvest

Gardening club 2018

The gardening club has made a great start to 2018. We were able to start by harvesting some of the vegetables that had been planted the year before

We were lucky enough to find strawberries, cabbage, silver beet and tomatoes. 

Potatoes and Poppies

By the end of Term 1 we had weeded all the vegetable and flower beds. New seeds and seedlings were planted. The Holey Fathers gave up their time to clear the paths and do planting in the up top gardens. Andrea brought in seed potatoes and leeks for us to plant. We are all looking forward to leek and potato soup when they are harvested. 

We have had an ANZAC garden for the last few years but the  exciting addition of three poppy sculptures makes it a very special place at Good Shepherd School. Thanks to Lisa Paniora for organising the the purchase of the poppies and cementing them into the garden. We scattered lots of poppy seeds around the garden so hopefully in spring it will look even more impressive!

Gardening Club 2016

Kia ora and welcome to Gardening Club 2016.
After a wonderful summer holiday and a hot February we started back at Gardening club in March. Lots of old faces returned and a few new gardeners joined us. With the support of our parent leaders Andrea Hannay, Tanya Sheridan and Lisa Paniora, we began the year by weeding the flower and vegetable beds and planting carrots, leeks and rocket. We also prepared the soil to plant potatoes.

Last week we made the interesting discovery of a very large slug. After doing some research we found that it is called Limax maximus (biggest slug) commonly known as  the leopard slug because of the markings on it's body. The one we found was 10cm long but they can be 10-20 cm so we will be keeping an eye out for it to see if it grows bigger!

End of year celebration

Wednesday 3rd December

After another busy year of gardening we gathered together to celebrate and thank all of our helpers.  What better way to enjoy the new season strawberries than with some delicious homemade strawberry icecream!

The garden club members all took home gifts to thank them for their hard work in the school gardens this year.  A big thank you goes to Grove Mitre 10 for providing us with gardening magazines for all the children.

We are looking forward to seeing all the children back for another year of gardening in 2015.  I wonder how big our sunflowers will be when we get back to school?

October Market Day

Held Thursday 30th October

A huge THANK YOU to everyone who supported our garden club market day.  We had lots of supporters donating, selling and purchasing and we appreciate you all.

We made a profit of $143.50 which is a fantastic boost to our funds.  We will be using the money to purchase new gardening gloves for the children and also to go towards our proposed garden shed.

Lisa's spinach and feta muffins were very popular sellers at the market day and she has kindly shared the recipe with us.  Thanks Lisa.

Spinach and Feta Muffins

1. Wash and then cook/wilt ( zap in the microwave or cook briefly on the stove top) a large bunch of spinach, allow to cool before placing in the food processor to chop finely

2.To the chopped spinach add feta aprox 100 g ( I save 100g to add in larger chunks to the mixture before going in the tins)

3. Then add 1 egg, 3/4 cup of milk, 1/4 cup of olive oil give a quick wizz to combine

You can add sundried tomatoes, olives etc

4. In a large bowl add 2 cups of self raising flour, 1 tsp salt then add the wet to the dry and mix. I then add my larger chunks of feta 

5. Spoon the mixture into muffin trays that have been buttered or sprayed

6. Bake 220 deg C for 10-15 mins till golden on top and spring back when pressed

7. Makes approx 12

Wednesday 24 September 2014

Blog post by Justine

Today the garden club children were busy creating these amazing seed packets for the sunflower seeds that we will sell at our next market day.  Keep an eye out for them - they are filled with sunflower seeds harvested from last summers sunflowers.