Watering team.

Its getting drier at Marewa School and our big gardens have potatoes and pumpkin plants in them - we are  watering each afternoon with a team of watering can experts.

We are hoping it will rain a lot over the holidays.

recycling and worm tea



Here are our great yoghurt pot cleaners, Sade and Sam  - look at how many bags of yoghurt pots we have saved from going in the landfill -  Mr Myers will be taking this terms collection to the recycling station soon.  We use some of them for our seedlings aswell.




Sam and Sade have also been busy this term diluting our worm tea - their job has been made easier as Mr Myers has converted an unused toilet block into our garden shed.





At Discovery time some of the juniors learnt about our worm farm - They helped feed the worms - worms don't like citrus or kiwifruit or bread or meat but they do like most other fruit and tea and coffee grounds!!!!!



Spring has sprung at Marewa School - look at all our lovely tuis in our spring trees!!!!!!!!



Our little tomato plants are looking a bit sad.  We hope the plastic containers around them will protect them from all the wind we have had lately.



Rawiri and Jakayze check on our new plants and our rather wobbly scarecrow.  We'll have to think about how to straighten him up!  We decided to keep the lavendar bush in our garden because it's attracting all the bees.  We need the bees to help our fruit grow.  Mr Meyer put the orange fence around our garden because the plants Mr Jackson planted for our hedge hideaway (just in front of Room One and Two's garden) have been squashed by people running through.  The fence will protect them until they are bigger.



Rawiri found blue at the bottom of the blueberry flowers.  They will turn into blueberries!



.....and our favourite plant - strawberries!!!!
The sticks with upside down coke bottles are going to be moveable gardens.  We were trying them out to see how well they stand up in the garden.  We are going to plant marigolds in them.

Making our scarecrow

Zion bangs in the pipe to hold the scarecrow.

Sedric saws the scarecrow frame while Jakayze holds it steady.

Making Room One's scarecrow

We used old shredded paper from the office to stuff our scarecrow.  We used an old painting shirt and an old sunhat.  Mrs Kohlis-Lee got some sticks from the beach for the frame.

It was fun making our scarecrow!

Orchard Planting

 

Mr Jackson showed us how to plant the fruit trees. First dig a hole deep enough, then add water, take tree out of bag and release the roots, next add a bit of fertilizer.  Put the tree in the hole and fill in with dirt - get someone to hold the tree straight while the hole gets filled up.

 

 

                                                                                 

Then it was our turn  - we worked well as a team - it was hard work.

We have planted apple, pear, mandarin, orange, guava and plum trees.

Mitre 10

Our enviro group went to Mitre 10 to redeem our voucher for all our garden goodies - it was fun finding all the things we needed to get.

  

Look at all the things we received.  Now to get gardening!!

Good job Marewa Keep it up ! Aotea

Marewa School: Room 6

We are thinking of many great ideas to put in our garden!

Room 5's Vege Garden

Room 5 are stoked with the produce in their garden! The rocket tastes delicious. Can you see the broccoli? They also have spinach, parsley and new lettuces which have popped up from seeds off the previous lettuces. 

marewaschool: Room 1

marewaschool: Room 1

The girls found lots of worms in our garden.  They were doing their awesome wormy-thing and making our soil rich.  Some of them were really long and fat!

marewaschool: Room 1

 marewaschool: Room 1

Katie and Glory dig out the last lettuce and broccoli plants to make way for our new seedlings.

marewaschool: Room 1

Some more of our class garden plans

marewaschool: Room 1



Week 2,3,4

Well week two saw most of the classes putting together ideas and plans for what they are going to be doing.  Each class has its own folder so will be putting in their updates in the next week.  We are waiting on permission from parents before we can put photos of the children doing their gardening - we have a lot of photos ready to go!!!!

This week our enviro group went to Mitre 10 to collect our goodies - we have tools, vege mix, and seedlings to get us started. 

The weather has finally improved so we can get gardening.

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marewaschool: marewaschool: Room 1: marewaschool: Room 1 These plans have got all sorts of garden ideas on them. They have all sorts of vegetables on them. By Jakayze They...

marewaschool: Room 1

marewaschool: Room 1

These plans have got all sorts of garden ideas on them. They have all sorts of vegetables on them.
By Jakayze

They have vegetables on them.
By Zion

We could have plants and food so we could always have something to eat.
By Tiori

We could put lots and lots of soil and water in our garden box for our plants.
By Glory

We could put lots of vegetables in our garden.
By Aleigha

We could have roses in our garden to look at and smell.
By Danyl and Wikitoria

We could put in all sorts of scarecrows to scare away the birds. 
We can put the beans in the hole to make them grow and water them.
By Harmoney and Rawiri

We can put flowers in our garden for the bees to make the honey.
By Shalia

We need a scarecrow to scare the birds away because they are going to eat the juicy vegetables.
By Quincy

We need compost to help the plants grow.
By Eliana

We can use nets to keep our vegetables safe from birds.
By George

We could use string to mark off which vegetable goes where.
By Katie

We could put flowers in our garden to make it look pretty.
By Tyla

We could use recycled bottles in our garden to grow plants.
By Stormy-Lee

marewaschool: Room 1

marewaschool: Room 1

Here are some of our garden box plans.   The second page are the tallies from our favourite plants.  It looks like we will plant blueberries, strawberries, tomatoes, carrots and marigolds.   We will work on how we are going to make a scarecow.

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.