Week 1 – Tui School Garden Challenge July 23-27 2012

Week 1 – Tui School Garden Challenge  July 23-27 2012

Last week Room 10 made posters to go around the school to tell everyone about the competition and help us think about what we want to do.  Jahtaya and Della Rylee took the posters around the classes and talked about what the competition was all about – they explained everything really well.

Well we registered and became one of the first schools to enter the competition so was sent a voucher to go to Mitre 10 to collect some amazing tools, seedlings and mix for our gardens.

All the classes are working on their plans for the term – looking at what the gardens are like now, what we want to get organised to do, then starting to prepare and plant the gardens for the next few months.

Room 10 were looking at  the plan of what to do when Tarunesh called out

 “There’s a Tui in the tree!!”  It seems like a good luck sign to see the Tuis there – it was Tuesday and pouring with rain – Tarunesh and Joseph went outside to catch some photos to start our blog.

We also took photos of the gardens as they are now – the rain will be good for gardens, even though we didn’t think so when it rained for 3 ½ days!!

Room 7 harvested some broccoli and silverbeet and Mathew stir fried it for the class for a snack at morning tea.

The juniors had Discovery on Friday and helped feed our worm farm – we looked for worms and eggs – they are looking very happy.  We made up some worm juice from the liquid that has come out of the worm farm – our veges will love it.  We learned that worms like paper, coffe and tea grounds, fruit and vege scraps but not garlic, onion, orange peel, or kiwifruit.

All the other classes have started planning what they want to do and will show some plans next week.