Oamaru North School seed save and give the garden worm juice

Oamaru North School had some broccoli plants go to seed over the summer holidays. We waited until they were well dried out and we saved the seed and scattered lots in the garden.

To our surprise this week the garden was full of small seedlings.

 Students upcycled some old drink bottles to dilute the worm juice and fed it to the seedlings.

Top up the gardens time

Alliance works do a mean compost. Waste from the works is processed into rich compost. Hot steaming mountains of compost. I picked up a load for Kakanui and St Joseph's school.

Kakanui School fed the compost to their garden beds, native grove and orchard.

 Even the Easter Bunny helped fed the orchard.

St Joseph's School Councillors put their compost to good use, replenishing their large raised bed.

Duntroon School room 4 Bug Hunt

Duntroon school room 4 learning about compost as part of their 5 + a day unit. Last week we talked about the main elements that broke down a compost, bacteria and fungi. This week we talked about the insects that help out too and we went on a bug hunt.
To everyone's surprise so many bugs were found.

So many worms were found

Digging in the compost we found huge slaters, centipedes, earwigs, pillbugs and beetles

The hunt for bugs that break down compost was fun

Fenwick School room 10 tame their garden

There must be good soil at Fenwick school garden as it has grown some big strong weeds. Room 10 claim a garden plot and get to work with a full scale weeding mission and a planting crew.1

Room 1 last week planted pots of seeds. They took them to the classroom to get them sprouting. They made such a good growth in 1 week. Room 10 pricked them out and planted some too.

Harvested treats from Pembroke School garden

Pembroke School are lucky to have two large apple trees. This week the children harvested some and got to try some of my fresh raw honey with the apples. They loved it.

Pembroke School garden also had some beautiful ripe cabbages and we made salad wraps which were delicious