Harvesting and Planning for Spring

Even though July marks the middle of winter, we still had spring in mind this month. Whaea Clare took us to the front of the school under the banksia trees. At first we thought there was just long scruffy grass growing there, but when we looked closely we could see the leaves and even a couple of buds of the spring bulbs we planted last winter, sprouting through the grass. We put some of our seed bombs around the bulbs, hopefully these will provide even more flowers in spring and summer.

We also had a big carrot hunt in our winter garden beds for anything we’d missed the other week. There was a huge group of gardeners for the start of the new term, so Whaea Danica got a knife and chopping board from Miss Hunt and we washed and sliced the carrots so everyone could get a taste. Yum! It happened so fast there wasn’t even time to get a photo! We tried some raw diced beetroot which also went down a treat. Cabbages, broccoli sprouts and silverbeet were picked too – our gardeners are getting very efficient at harvesting :)