Spring Prep

For our first garden club session of spring we checked for kumara from last season (and found some gigantic worms), painted signs for our new garden beds, and sowed lots of seeds for our Great Seedling Swap challenge. For this challenge Garden to Table and Tui have supplied us with some seed raising mix and lettuce seeds. They’ve challenged us to  produce seedlings to sell to the public on the weekend of 27 October – that’s in about eight weeks’ time. As well as lettuce we sowed capsicum and chilli seeds. We hope to get together with the other PiPS schools and sell to the community together.

Savannah had a boiled egg in her lunchbox and remembered that eggshells were a good way to repel slugs and snails from our vege seedlings. Great thinking, Savannah!