Planning Our New Garden Beds

Whaea Clare had some really exciting news today – thanks to some very generous sponsorship by TECT, the Fonterra Grass Roots Fund and Good Neighbour, we’ll be getting four big, new garden beds which will more than double our current gardens! The new gardens will be wicking beds (Whaea Heidi helped make some of these last year and you can read her report here).  Wicking beds are super water efficient planter boxes. Being water efficient will help our environment, our plants, and the school’s water bill.

Mr Skilton and Mr Scott have allowed us to take over a big space next to our existing gardens, so our garden area will also be more than doubled. Good Neighbour are making the beds and organising the installation. We’ll be having a working bee this weekend to fill the beds up and then it will be straight onto planting!

But before all that we needed to talk about the things we might want to plant, and see, in our big new garden space. There were lots of good thoughts for summer plantings, like tomatoes, cucumbers, corn and strawberries, and other ideas including having an entrance archway, pathways lined with herbs, a pizza oven and even guinea pigs (although Mr Skilton may take a bit of convincing on that one).

On this beautiful winter’s day we also had some welcome insect visitors to our garden :)