Bush Cleanup!

Well done to all involved in our bush clean up today!
What a success. It looks great!!

Orchard Planting

Harvest time for our winter veggies!

Well done to all our gardeners who harvested their crops on Monday afternoon and left them on a table for families to take home and eat. You did a fabulous job and they looked so colourful. We harvested silverbeet, rainbow beet, spring onions, lettuce, beetroot and celery.

Looking forward to planting our orchard trees next with the help of Mitre 10!

Tuatara plants garlic

Today we had two very keen and able helpers from Tuatara class. Tane and Rhihana dismantled a garlic bulb and planted approx 40 cloves into Tuatara's plot. In a few weeks the garlic should have poked through, they look a bit like onions so keep an eye out for them. Thanks for your help guys ! :) Hopefully you will get to harvest it in December!

Pukeko - do you like beans?

I hope you like beans because there's lots of butter beans to harvest in your new Pukeko plot. Please pick them every few days so more will grow. If you don't like beans cooked, try them raw - yum. Don't forget to wash them first.

Pukeko were lucky enough to inherit the great work from Ruru last year - thanks Ruru!

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.