Gardening 2012

Gardening and Cooking on PhotoPeach



This year we are lucky to have parents helping us in our vegetable garden.

Children have planted silverbeet plants and seeds, harvested beans, potatoes and corn and cooked and eaten these vegetables.

Cooking Broad Beans

Broad Beans on PhotoPeach


Today the garden group picked and cooked broad beans. They experimented with different ways of cooking them.

Harakeke Posts

Each class has painted, carved or added mosaics on a post to put by their class harakeke. These have been cemented in and are looking amazing!

Some children from Room 10 were so keen to help that they stayed at school till 4 o'clock helping cement the posts!

Gardening

Yes. It's the last day of term and we are gardening.

In go our vegetables and herbs ready for eating next term!

Yum, can't wait.

Stream Monitoring Term 3

We completed our third stream monitoring for this year. The stream was in very good health with lots of big mayfly easily found. We had the added company of the resident black cat. It was very interested in what we were doing!

KEG's This Week

This week the children tested the soil. They found it to be quite sandy with an acidic pH value of around 6. The garden was weeded and forked over. We picked and compared the green to red lettuce leaves. The plants and seedlings were watered with the fertiliser we made. We planted peas in with the beans to make a 'legume' bed.

Planting at Poorman Stream

Yesterday a group of senior syndicate students helped Steve from Nelmac plant out some native plants alongside Poorman Stream. We planted harakeke, grasses and kowhai.

This is our third year of planting at this site and it is starting to look better with plants from previous plantings getting established. Despite this, however, this site also hosts every bad weed possible according to Steve.

Lets hope that with continued planting and a helping hand from Nelmac that one day this part of the stream becomes an attractive riparian site.