Lots of seedling potting going on...

Shelley came for a visit today, to help us get started potting our new seedlings into root trainers. 

Great team work went on, firstly filling the root trainers and setting them up in their frames, and then planting the seedlings.

...with Turnwald Whanau

Planting time for strawberries

Winter time is a good time for planting strawberry plants, so we all helped to plant some wild strawberry plants that Becky had brought from home. We talked about the little baby plants that they make, and how they can spread across the garden, making more and more plants... And strawberries! So we gave them plenty of space.

Borage and nasturtium

The borage and nasturtium seeds that we had planted in pots last term are now big enough to plant, so we paired up and chose spots to plant them in the garden.

We can eat these flowers, but they are also great for attracting the bees.

Lexi and the snail!

The last of the weeds...

Since the last time we weeded, of course more have popped up, so today we had a real push to get rid of the last of them...and we had a cunning plan to try and put the weeds off in future!

Sand for pathways

We collected some sand from the sand pit in buckets....remembering not to fill them up to the top, as they get REALLY heavy!

Forming the paths

We tipped the sand along the old pathways and smoothed it down....hopefully that will put the weeds off from growing there any more!

On the hunt for kiwi food

After some of us had been to the kiwi release this morning, we thought it would be fun to have a hunt around school to see what sort of 'edible garden' we have here that would be good for kiwis, so we took some little clear plastic cups with us up the bank, and after a chat about where we thought bugs might hide, went on a bug search...

More searching...

Kiwi tucker

Here are some of our finds:

Wood lice

Snails

Berries

Slugs

Spiders

Earwigs

Ants.....

But maybe only enough for one kiwi meal!