Let the Tui School Garden Challenge begin!

Last term the members of the Gardening Gang and many other children embraced the period of Matariki by celebrating Papatuanuku (earth mother)  and preparing and conditioning the soil in the gardens ready for the first of the spring planting.... and of course in preparation for the Tui School Garden Challenge!

Since the competition started three weeks ago, the members of the Green Team and many enthusiastic supporters have been busy gathering inspiration, ideas and valuable local knowledge for our garden project.

We have a strong commitment to nurturing our environment and this competition has given us the opportunity to really look at our Environmental Pledge and ensure that we are still honouring it..... the great news is YES we are, but there is always more we can do!

 Khandallah School Environmental Pledge

Week One

• We spent time in the ICT suite researching ideas from the TUI website http://www.tuigarden.co.nz and other relevant sources. 
• We topped up our raised garden beds with nutrious worm wee from our worm farm

 Using the TUI planting calendar we were able to work out which plants were suitable to grow at this time of the year and most importantly.... what would grow in Wellington!

Busy gathering ideas 

We also found  www.easy-veg.co.nz and http://www.ghorganics.com  which were useful for researching the concept of companion planting.
 

A water saving concept which was researched

Some broken hoops we think we could
use to support growing beans

Other bits and pieces that may come in handy...
We'll just tuck them away in our garden shed
for safe keeping!