International Student Garden

This term Vincent Wu (Year 12), Harry Nguyen (Year 12), Alice Chen (Year 11) and Cathy Liu (ELC) assisted Phillip, the Maintenance Officer, to change over the garden beds from summer crops to winter vegetables. This required harvesting the tomatoes, beans, zucchinis, cucumbers, eggplants, silverbeet and spaghetti squash. There were also supporting crops of corn and sunflowers. The raised beds were dug over with compost and pine bark mulch added.

The students sowed seeds in propagating trays which were placed on heat trays. Germination took place quickly then they were later planted in the vegetable beds. The season changed from warm and dry to cold and wet, so growth has been slow.

Last spring a plantation of corn, beans and pumpkin was put in near the VCE locker bays. This system is known as The Three Sisters comes from the Indians of North America. We harvested

35 Japanese pumpkins. They were used in the Pumpkin soup served at the Chaplaincy Dinner on the 31st May.

Phillip Naughton