Waitaki Valley School makes a start with the Waitaki Community Gardens

Waitaki Valley School have had a school garden for many years run by teacher Gill Meehan.  It has 5 large raised beds and a great tool shed.  They won a competition and received a large supply of tools for the garden.  This week was my first week to run garden club there and the 10 students really enjoyed it.

The 5 beds were sowed with green manure crops and watered in

Here is Lulu Hayes who won garden kid club of the week in the planting team for her help planting flowers.  Lulu is a pre schooler helping out for the day.  

The beds were watered.

The watering team did a great job

Fenwick School gets a new Grandparent helper, Hoiti

Fenwick School welcomes their new Grandparten helper Hoiti to work alongside Graham for the rest of the year.  We welcome all parent and Grandparent help.  Hoiti has shown us some great skills of cutting the tips of the leaves of new seedling before planting.  I've been trying this out at home too and the seedling seem to burst into life :)

Fenwick also has some new scarecrows who look rather smart and keen to work.

Fenwick have been busy last week planting peas 

Constructing a hanging garden from a pellet

And Graham helped construct a frost cloth tunnel house

It looks great

We loved picking fresh produce to take home

Duntroon re-vamps their worm farm

Duntroon School decided to get their worm farm going again

First Step was to scrunch newspaper and soak it in water

 

Having fun scrunching

Then it was stuffed into the tyres

This is where the worm breed

The new worm farm was set up on a pellet on an angle so that worm juice can be collected from it.  A large scoop of the old worm farm was put into the first tyre so that the worms would have a familiar environment 

 Worms LOVE HORSE POO and we gave them a nice thick layer of it.  In the smaller bucket is a scoop of worms from the Waitaki Community Gardens to give Duntroon Schools worm farm a boot in worm population.  Mrs Brown suggested that these new worms would probably be very community minded :) she is very punny :)