Tending To Our Winter Crops

To finish off our enviro lesson today, the middle school tended to our winter crops . We fed the orchard and vege gardens with worm tea. Can you see our baby apples and just germinated broad beans?

Room 16 hunted down worms to go into our vege patches. We found big fat gray excavator worms. Their tunnels will make the soil light for our veges' roots to grow through and easy for water to soak into.

Room 18 also thinned the carrots we had planted last term, so the ones that are left will have space to grow huge. The carrots we picked were sweet, crunchy and delicious.

What's your favourite winter vegetable?

Room 16's Enviro Reflection for Term One

Room 16's Harvest;Sharing with our Community

Today Room 16 harvested fruit and veges from the edible gardens; marrows, rock melons, capsicums and cherry tomatoes.  We tasted the rock melon and put the rest of our harvest in a basket.

We also pulled out the dead sweet peas and put their stalks in the compost. We then began the cycle again by planting peas. Next we'll feed the soil with worm tea and compost. We're being sustainable!

After school we gave the fruit and veges away, for koha,

to our Sunnyhills families. Everyone loved the giant marrows. It feels great to share!