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.

Plan for term 3

In our veggie garden in the middle we are going to have 4 tyres and in them we are going to have raspberries, blackberries, cranberries and rhubarb.  We are going to plant some tomatoes which Anneke is responsible for and the rest of us are going to grow cherry tomatoes, parsley, coriander and basil. We are going to sell our walnut crackle and maybe our pesto at the Feilding market in week 8.

On Monday we planted some Kowhai  in our native area  we got the Kowhai from paper for trees they will be judged for lamb and calf day to find out which one has grown the most.

We have cleaned up the glass house getting the rot and mold from the tomatoes. We have decided to keep the tomatoes going until they  are completely finished. We have also planted runners off the strawberry's some in water some in soil the ones in water died the ones in soil are growing really well. In a couple of weeks we will look at pulling the tomatoes out and having a big clean up.    

 

On Friday we have had a soup day each group made some soup 1 group made pumpkin soup and another group made noddle doddle there were all different kinds of soup we went up to Trishs garden she taught us a bit about all the veges and organic she gave us lots of veges for our soup My whanu group made potato and leak soup.   We had these healthy eating people come to school and they taught us a bit about healthy eating.  we learnt how to read labels  and the food pyramid and
For our hydroponics we are cleaning it out and picking lots of tomatoes we are deciding weather we keep the tomatoes going for the winter.

Zahn is the leader of the hydro rangers for this term I am the leader while Zahn is away we also have Derek,  Sarah and Alex
We cheek the hydroponics daily
We have been cleaning the glass house and getting all the dead leaves out from under neath and all the rotten  tomatoes out.
We have planted some strawberry two.
We use the tomatoes and all the herbs for the healthy lunches. 
By Charlotte

Electives - Term 3

Building / Carpentry

Each Monday for this term we are going to be learning building skills. We have planned some small projects to build such as a toolbox and a pencil case. We will always have an adult supervising and helping with cutting, measuring etc. Thanks to Mike for offering to help. If anyone else has time between 12.45 and 1.15 on a Monday we would love to see you. We have a toolbox plan at school if you would like to see it.
If you have any spare tools at home eg hammers, measuring tape, saws we would really appreciate them as we are starting to put together a school tool box (Charlotte)

Hydroponics - Term 3

We are going to plant some veges in the glasshouse when it gets warmer. We are currently planning what we can plant. (Stanley)
My group is called the Hydro Rangers and we have a glass house.  We grow plants like strawberries.  I look after the berries.  I look after them by feeding them water and nutrients.  I pull the weeds out.  I pull the dead leaves off.  (Alex).
Hydro Rangers take care of veges.  I cleaned the hydroponic house.  I plant strawberries, I look after strawberries.  I'm going to cut the dead leaves off.  (Sarah).