Maheno School Garden Club

Term 1 at Maheno School Garden Club has been a bustling bee hive of activity. We arrived back at school after the summer holidays to discover our garden was overgrown with weeds! This term, a dedicated group of students have chosen to participate in garden club during lunch time and 20 minutes of class time. We kicked off in February with a big working bee that involved heaps of weeding and tidying up the toolshed.

“We learned to pull out roots when you weed.” –Charlie

Weeding and composting raised garden beds

 “We learned that if you plant something after you weed, the weeds won’t grow back.” --Ainsley

So we’ve planted kale, leafy winter greens, broccoli, and rocket in some of the beds that became overgrown with weeds over summer holidays.

We’ve also harvested one of the compost bins...then, we massaged Maheno’s black gold into the raised garden beds to replenish the nutrients in the soil. 

“I learned you can’t put onion and citrus in the compost because the worms don’t like them.” --Brooke

In between the weeding, tidying, and planting, we’ve done a bit of taste testing also. 
“I learned that pansies and calendula flowers are edible.” –Oscar

The orchard of fruit trees Maheno planted last year are flourishing with green foliage are looking healthy after their first season in the ground. 

“We helped the trees grow and gave them food (horse pooh and sawdust).” –Ruby Jean

Here is a photo of Maheno School Garden Club and the new signs they have designed for their compost bins so people know which compost bin to feed and which one is resting.

Overall, Kids Growing at Maheno School is off to a great start in Term 1. We are working with Sophia to weed, compost, and plant out our garden beds with winter crops. We would like to thank the ANZ Staff Foundation for their support and making Kids Growing possible at our school this year. 2017 Kids Growing will be a year to remember!

 

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