Pukeko Garden

Just a quick blog post (being my first) to let you know that unfortunately something ate the sunflowers that all the Pukekos sowed and I think I did witness were there for a few weeks anyhow! 

Today, I decided to sow more seeds.  A row of lettuce, 2 rows of carrots and some sunflowers in the middle near and around the 'sage' area!  Please keep a look out if you see bugs eating anything and scare them off!! 

Let's hope the 'patch' produces something over the summer break!  P.S. the 3 tomato plants seem to be coming on well.  I wonder when we will be able to start eating those yummy cherry tomatoes?!!

Photo update from Tuatara and Kea.

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We have also lost pea plants to the hungry snail? and radishes to the wind blowing the shade cloth around. Patchy germination with some seeds.

Keeping the birds from the berries

Our strawberries are flowering and one even has a tinge of red. Who's going to be the first to eat that one? You better be quick!

On Monday we put some netting over the strawberries. Adam was Chief Driller, and he quickly became a pro with the electric drill - drilling the netting between the wooden stakes. Thanks for your help Adam. Fingers crossed we'll keep those birds out.

Something's been eating our beans

Who's been scoffing the bean seedlings? We had about 20 plants but some creature has been having a grand feast and left us with a bunch of bare stumps. We need to hunt that snail down - and do 'you know what' to it.

Luckily we managed to save a few and plant these out (even if they were a bit holey) and with the super helpful helpers Garath, Jackson and Carlie-anne we set another batch to germinate.

The team also had another crack at sowing carrots as the last lot didn't germinate. We hope you'll get a taste before you head off to your new school.

Keep up the great work and don't forget to give the bed a little water if this rain stops for a few days.

Paua plant out their plot

On Monday Paua got their garden bed under control. With the stirling effort from Adam, Josh, Toby, and Sam we ripped out all of the mint, fennel and weeds and planted two courgettes (one yellow and one green), and sowed some radish seed at either end.

We even had a little room left over, so we snuck in some snow peas, which hopefully will be big and tall, and almost harvested by the time the courgettes take over - yum.

Adam and Sam bundled up the mint for the kids and parents to take it home afterschool. Hopefully they managed to throw some on their spuds or made some mint sauce.

Great work Paua.

Thanks to the garden helpers

The staff and students of Plateau School would like to say a big thank-you to every adult who has put there name forward to help out with our school gardens. These wonderful people are Zoe Harbord, Paula Donaldson, Ross Simpson, Glennis Sheppard and Alan Sheppard and the biggest thank-you of all goes to Sharon Lysaght who is looking over everything that is going on!

Pukeko start gardening with Zoe Harbord.

Today pukeko started planting  in their garden.They planted tomatos and sunflowers.Liam really looks like he knows what he's doing,well done. And a big thank you to Zoe Harbord for helping us.