Our bulbs are blooming beautifully... We are enjoying seeing all the different varieties of daffodils that we planted. Some of the earlier ones to bloom had orange trumpets!
Our chickens seem happy and enjoy it when students come and feed them chickweed from the gardens. They are laying eggs which the children from Seaview enjoy collecting, as do the Birchwood Kindergarten children.
Our kale is almost big enough to make kale chips from! Putting the plastic containers around our surviving plants has worked really well at keeping the bugs, slugs and snails away!
Our remaining spinach is getting bigger too... Hopefully we can make some savoury feta and spinach muffins using this and some of our chickens eggs soon! Click on the link for a yummy recipe!
Our silverbeet it growing better too now the bugs, slug and snails have stopped feasting on it!
Our beetroot is slowly getting bigger too... Did you know the leaves are also edible as they come from the same plant family as spinach?
Two of our 4 strawberry plants are growing well.
We don't understand why the other two are not when they have all had the same treatment! We hope the other two will begin to look happier and healthier soon!
After we looked at all of these we discussed which seeds we would like to try and grow first now that the weather and soil is getting warmer...
We picked the 'Tiny Tom' tomato seeds.
We had hoped to have planted our seed potatoes by now but they haven't sprouted enough yet!
Hopefully they will have chitted enough to plant soon...
Chitting is basically another word for sprouting. What you do when you chit your seed potatoes is speed up the ageing process of the potato, by exposing it to light and, more importantly, a bit of warmth. This causes the eyes of the seed potato to start sprouting. We hope they hurry up and chit enough to plant soon!
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