WPS Community Children’s Garden
Thanks to retired new Woodender, Michael, for offering to help out with Garden Club. This extra pair of hands has helped immensely. If anyone else has any friends / parents / grandparents who may have some free time on Mondays to toil in the school garden with young children, send them my way. People don’t have to be a parent of WPS students, just have a WWCC and enthusiasm for supporting young children.
The extra hands in the garden has meant we have been able to finish off some jobs that we have been working on for many weeks:
Thornless blackberries are pruned, tied to the fence and ready to provide us with lots of fruit in summer.
Thanks to Hayden for fixing the retaining wall along the raspberry bed – the kids loved this hard yakka job.
pruning thornless blackberries
fixed retaining wall
fixing retaining wall
pruning thornless blackberries
blackberries ready for summer
a hole to put a plant in
hammering in stakes
Michael & natives planted around office
new plants in the Owen St garden
planing native grasses
protecting our plants with guards
planting natives in the beds
pruning thornless blackberries
fixed retaining wall
fixing retaining wall
pruning thornless blackberries
blackberries ready for summer
a hole to put a plant in
hammering in stakes
Michael & natives planted around office
new plants in the Owen St garden
planing native grasses
protecting our plants with guards
planting natives in the beds
We took advantage of the rain that was forecast for this week and moved some self-sewn lambs ears, native grasses and native lilies into the garden beds around the school. The students enjoyed our ‘excursion’ to another section of the school and installing plant guards to protect their plants from being trampled.
| Volunteers needed: WPS Children’s Garden Club | |
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| Where: | Woodend Community Children’s Garden (Buckland St, Woodend) |
| When: | 12.45-1.45pm Mondays parent help required to run lunchtime Kid’s Garden Club |
| 1.45 - 3.20pm Mondays - parent’s gardening group | |
| BYO: | Bring your enthusiasm and desire to pitch in (No gardening know how needed). Please wear sturdy shoes, gardening gloves and weather appropriate clothing. Pre-school age children are welcome too |
| Sign in: | Please sign in at the Office before gardening (Working With Children Check required) |
| Contact: | Nicole Middleton 0418 233 366 |
If you can’t make it to the Monday sessions, but you can help out another day, simply contact me to see what needs to be done.
Volunteer WPS Gardening Group Facilitator
Nicole Middleton - 0418 233 366