TERM4 GOALS

KIRSTEN: KEEP THE PLACE CLEAN (DEAD LEAVES)

SARAH: WATERING BASIL AND PLANTING THE SEEDS

FISHER AND DEREK: TEST HYDROPONIC AND PH LEVELS

NIKKI: MAKE SURE EVERY THING IS GOOD

TO BUY STRAWBERRIES AND BASIL SEEDS

2014 Our Plan

Glass house

• Keep clean and tidy (Sarah / Kirsten)
• No dead leaves and old fruit / veg
• Check plants for diseases
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• Pick the fruit
• Harvest parsley

• Make sure we know how to do the hydroponics properly (Derek / Anneke)
• Make sure the hydroponics is done every day
• Pull out extra and finished plants and replant

Vege Garden (Jackson / Kirsten)

• Water the garden
• Weed
• Pull out old plants 
• Replant
• If a new person comes show them what to do

2013. 7/11

We have been doing the hydroponics and making the glass house look beautiful ... fo example taking dead leaves out/off. In the glass house we are growing strawberries, tiny tomatoes, lettuce and marigolds.The marigolds keep the bugs away. The marigolds are not there to look good. They are there to eat, produce and sell.
 Our veggie garden is doing very well. Derek and Joanne water them every day. We are growing lettuce, chives, cabbage, leak and marigolds. We check for diseased and dead leaves regularly. The potatoes are doing really well.
 The raspberry and blueberry plants are flowering and are healthy. When they are ripe we plan to eat them.
On Tuesday Sarah and Joanne are planting basil seeds with Mrs Lowe. On the 22nd we are going to the Feilding Farmers Market to sell walnut crackle. We would love some help to make the walnut crackle this week. Our team player was Derek. He was working well all the time and when he had finished one job he went to another.

Green Finger Zone Opening

On Friday the 27th we had out opening ceremony  for the Green Finger Zone. We shared our glass house and our next steps on what we were going to do. We had MP Mr Mckelvie, Councillor Matt Bell and members from Horizons.
Thank you to all those people who came and joined us for that. We would also like to thank Mrs Lowe for coming up and cutting the ribbon with us.
The strawberries are up and running again after bright fly and they taste good!! We have also planted some more tomatoes.

week 6 update

We had achieved cleaning the glass house and making it look really good at the working bee.
On Wednesday, Mrs Sandbrooke came down and helped us plant some blackcurrants plants. Then we planted some Kowhai seeds  in potting mix. Soon we are going to be making lots of batches of walnut crackle.
We would like to thank Mrs Lowe and Katherine for helping us at the working bee and Mr and Mrs Carter for letting us come over and make signs for our veggie gardens. Also thank you Jess for helping us plant the plants. We really appreciate all the help everyone has put into our school.

Pinata Technology

Our technology challenge was to make a pinata strong, but not so strong that it takes forever to smash and we had to have a place for the lollies ( Derek ).
We had to think about the shape and size to make sure we had enough time; like if we made a big one we would have to use more time.
We had to make sure that it will stay together and hangs up. ( Anneke )
We looked on Google images to find ideas. We found a bee hive and we thought that would be good idea. We started off with a balloon. Then we changed to making rings because we thought it would be bigger. Then we used the rings and paper mache-ed it. It didn't turn out the right shape so we had to kind of adjust it.
The bee hive is a funny shape; like some bits have gone in and it's not quite what we expected. This is because the rings weren't strong enough to hold up the glop (glue) .
We have started painting it and then we will put our bumble bees on that we made of cotton buds and we painted them black and yellow ( Charlotte )

Planting and Crackle!!

We have recently planted 3 kinds of plants in the tyres:- blueberries, raspberries and rhubarb. In the glass house the strawberries are dying  they have white fly.
We have made 3 batches of walnut crackle, testing which temperature is the best. Then after a while, when we know how to make the best crackle, we will start making it ready for week 8 to sell at the Feilding market.