Community Garden Rotation

With Spring now here, it is time to rotate the crops in our Community Garden. The seeds that we planted at the beginning of the term were now ready to transfer into the gardens.

Last week we cleared the carbon crop gardens and prepared the new compost heap. At 11am today, joined by Gordon from Transition Matamata and Tamara, everyone had specific jobs to do in order to prepare the new beds. Plots needed to be dug over and compost added from our compost heap; old plants removed or transferred to their new garden; new seedlings and potatoes planted and carbon crops sprinkled such as pumpkin seeds to add nutrients to the soil.

A good watering to finish things off and now we wait for the crops to grow. 

Planting the winter crops

  It's time to change the crops and rotate the gardens for winter!

Steve showed us how to lay out the seeds and seedlings and we used the compost from our heap to add goodness into the soil.

This time we will have beans and kale, onions and carrots and the potatoes are still going strong.

Strawberries

Mmmm! Look at what we have growing in our school garden. Delicious, juicy sweet strawberries!!