Our Own Seed Raising Mix

Whaea Clare found a recipe to make our own seed raising mix. When she read the recipe she found that we have most of the ingredients at school! 

The recipe is:

– 1 part sand (we used the sand from the school sand pit as the salt from beach sand could damage or kill young seedlings)

–  2 parts rehydrated coir fibre (Whaea Clare bought this from Bunnings for less than $4)

 – 3 parts screened compost, or 2 parts compost, 1 part vermicast from your worm farm (we used the compost that we made from our gardens and sifted it to get the big bits out)

There we have it, our own seed raising mix that we used to start growing our seeds from and it only cost us $4. And we used what we had around the school, which is part of our Reduce, Reuse, Recycle inquiry at school.