11th April 2016
The weather today was cloudy, but warm. Lots of
new stuff in the garden—new seeds planted, new garden club members, new weeds,
and new worms in the worm farm. Today we planted cabbage, rainbow silverbeet,
broccoli, ordinary silverbeet, lettuce and cauliflower. We also transplanted an
oak seedling and watered all the garden beds. We pulled out old crops of
broccoli, tomatoes & corn and composted them. We found potatoes and
tomatoes while we were working in the garden. We did a weeding blitz—weeding 5
beds in 5 minutes—singing, “we will, we will kill you, weed you, pull you out
and compost you!”
2nd May 2016
Today, weather is cloudy, but it hasn’t rained
yet. The moon calendar said was a good day for weeding and garden maintenance,
so we did. Some of the garden club weeded,
(Cool new sign at Maheno Garden Club!)
while others made walnut bags by folding sheets
of newspaper. The walnuts have been collected from the school tree, will be
bagged up in the newspaper pockets, and sold at Happy Harvest Day next Friday,
May 13th.
We also harvested a pumpkin for Happy Harvest
Day. We learned that the pumpkin plants weren’t planted early enough because
they are still flowering after the first frost, and most of the pumpkins
growing are still very small.
Case and Ben were on a special mission this
garden club... they “learned how to climb kowhail trees and harvest the seeds.
We also harvested flax seeds by banging the seed pods on the ground and
sweeping the loose seeds into a bucket.” --Case
Four of us had a weeding competition to see who
is the Fastest Weeder in Maheno. The challenge was to weed and fill an entire
bucket; Pip finished 1st, Gemma 2nd, Shelby 3rd and Sophia 4th.
Our plan for next week is to do some planting
and prepare for Happy Harvest Day.
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