Kitchen Garden

 3/4H in the garden

 Yesterday 3/4H spent the afternoon in the Kitchen Garden, and what a perfect afternoon it was with the sun shining as they worked. 

The activities this week: 

-Digging a patch of potatoes that 3/4L planted. These will be stored and used in the cooking session. 

-Planting 2 varieties of lettuce. 

-Mixing and aerating the compost bins. 

-Planting some flowering shrubs, ground covers and annuals to add some colour throughout the garden. We’re hoping this attracts more pollinators to the garden. 

-Making and attaching heads, gloves and boots to the scarecrows. Next week we’ll put them in place in the garden. 

           Kitchen Garden Composting

We collect the food scraps, daily, from every classroom in the school. The scraps are put into compost bins in the kitchen garden where, overtime, they breakdown into nutrient rich organic matter. The broken-down compost is spread onto the garden beds which makes our vegetables thrive. 

At home, you can help improve our kitchen garden composting system by peeling off and disposing of fruit stickers before putting fruit into lunch boxes. 

The stickers are plastic and will never breakdown, which means we spend a lot of time picking out fruit peel stickers from the garden beds.