Planting begins

After creating our garden beds last week using the "no dig" lasagne method. This week saw the beginning of planting. The students opened up the bed down to the newspaper, then using a soil mixture of mushroom compost and clay road base, they fill the hole they have created. placing the seedling down, they then use a little more of the soil mixture around the seedling to 'bed it down'. Then it's time to water with some molasses.

The kids showed such great care with their plantings, delicately placing their seedlings into their bed, and then enjoying watering their plants, and themselves.

We have planted out some leafy greens; mixed lettuce, cos lettuce, parsley, mizury, and silver beet. And as the Kindy class walked out of the garden waving goodbye to their freshly planted seedlings, you couldn't get the smile off my face!

Our broad beans and peas that we propagated a couple of weeks ago have done incredibly well, being looked after in one of the classrooms. After a few days in filtered light, they will go into the beds next week. There are also plenty of little jobs to be done, as we continue to work on the landscaping in areas and get our resources together.

Fun times in the garden.

Care

Watering