Welcome to Term 4

We were lucky to have a sunny, wind-free day for our first session of the new term. We had lots to do including:

— clearing some of the garden beds to make room for summer crops

— planting some of the tomato plants we raised from seed

— replacing one of the fruit trees in the orchard, which had unfortunately had its trunk snapped. We planted a ‘Winter Banana’ apple tree in its place. The apples are supposed to have a slight banana-like flavour, we can’t wait to find out if this is true!

— planting potatoes in tyres

— planting sunflower seeds

— fertilising and watering all our baby tomato plants. We are planning to run a stall in a couple of weeks to share them with our school community.

Because all the year 5 & 6s were at school camp, there were only a few of us but we got to work and got everything done.