Enviro Kids Term 4 Week 3 2014

Kia Ora Whanau!

This week we have been harvesting our cauliflowers. We grew them in the gardens by the front door of our office and we have learned that these gardens are not very good for these plants.

We have thought a lot about this and our conclusions are:
- these gardens do not get enough sun
- these gardens do not get enough rain
- these gardens do not have enough room for large plants.

Luckily there were just enough of the cauliflowers for us to share and take home to our whanau.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well done Enviro Kids, you are using your gardening skills and your thinking skills to make the plants grow so we can share them!

Happy gardening Everyone!

 

 

 

 

 

Enviro Kids Term 4 week 2 2014

Kia Ora Whanau! What a great week for gardening!

We have really appreciated the sunshine and the rain this week. It has been great watching all our plants grow and flourish.

We spent quite a lot of our time with the strawberry patch this week. It needed a lot of weeding and fertilizing with worm tea and watering.

 

 

 

 

 

 

We also fed our worms and made sure that they have some paper with their fruit to help it all pass through their bodies.

 

 

 

Happy gardening Everyone!

 

 

 

Enviro Kids Term 4 Week 1 2014

Kia Ora Everyone! Welcome back to Term 4 of 2014!

This week we have been watering our silerbeet and strawberry plants. We have watched how our cauliflowers and herbs have grown over the holidays.

Some people were even lucky enough to get 'caught wearing a school hat' and were given an ice block!

 

 

 

 

Our potatoes are looking really good from the outside!

 

 

Happy gardening everyone!

 

 

 

 

Enviro Kids week 10 Term 3 2014

Kia Ora Whanau!

Wow the term has gone very fast!

This week we asked Bob to add some compost to the two gardens outside Room 8 and dig them over for us. THANK YOU BOB!

This meant we were able to plant our seed potatoes. We have two varieties. One is called Rocket, which we think will grow very quickly. The other is called Purple Passion, which we think might have purple skin. We will wait and see if we are right.

 

 

We made sure that they were down far enough in the trench and then we covered them with just enough soil to allow them to sprout.

 

 

 

Our new mint plants are growing really well too! Great job Enviro Kids!

 

 

Have a great two weeks holiday everyone!

See you all next term!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Enviro Kids Week 9 Term 3 2014

Kia Ora Everyone!

This week we have done a lot of maxi-weeding and preparation in our gardens.

We took out the old silverbeet and spinach plants and herbs from the gardens by Room 8. We had to heave and heave and heave to get them out! What great teamwork!

 

 

 

Everybody got some mint or lemon verbena plants to take home and plant in their own gardens.

 

 

 

The leaves went to the worm farm, Awesome work Enviro Kids!

 

 

 

 

Enviro Kids Week 8 Term 3 2014

Kia Ora Everyone!

This week we have added silverbeet seedlings to our gardens and continued to water our strawberry patch.

 

 

If you look closely, you can see a tiny strawberry beginning to grow inside each flower.

Watch this space!

 

 

Enviro Kids Weeks 5, 6 and 7 Term 3 2014

Kia Ora Whanau!

Over the past few weeks we have been looking after our gardens by weeding and watering them.

We have given special attention to our strawberry patch. We are looking forward to ripe red strawberries when it gets warmer!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Great job everyone!