Fenwick's TLC Garden

We planted sunflowers. First, we weeded the area. Then, we put soil in a bucket because it was too hard where we were going to plant sunflowers.

We planted herbs in a class garden bucket.

We worked as a team to weed and water the garden. 

We planted potatoes inside tyres. In the tyres with potatoes already growing, we mounded one with soil and two with straw. We planted potatoes with the sprouts up.

The weeding team picked the weeds and put them in a bucket, then in the compost. It was easy!

Pembroke's TLC Garden

After school holidays, the weeding team weeded all the garden beds and found lots of stinging nettle and chick weed.

The potato planting team used compost and straw to plant potatoes in a tyre because potatoes like the dark.

We tasted some rocket--it was a bit weird and really spicy.

Grace brought magic beans--scarlet runners--from her poppa's house and we planted them by the fence.

The next week, we planted pumpkin seeds, weeded and mulched around the two apple trees, and planted brassicas.

St Joseph's Garden

Every Thursday 2 people from each class at St Joseph's do some gardening in our school garden, we have came a long way from the start and there is more coming.

This week we put some peas in we garden.

We also weeded and watered the plants.

The Living Classrooms are sprouting up everywhere this Spring in the Waitaki!

Hooray! Spring is here! Best of all, the schools in the Waitaki District are springing into their gardens and joining The Living Classroom (TLC) initiative....

This is a blog for all participating schools to share what's happening at their school garden clubs-- activities, work done, plants planted, funny stories, photos to share.... your imagination is the limit!

This week is a big one, with Kakanui, Pembroke, and St. Joseph's all launching their school gardens on the same week!

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--Sophia (Waitaki Community Gardens Coordinator)
Waitaki.Community.Gardens@gmail.com