Term 4 Week 1

This week we were so excited to see how much our seeds, potatoes and vegetables in our raised beds had grown during the holidays with all the spring rain and warm weather....

Here are our strawberry plants and carrot seedlings...

Our potatoes have all sprouted too!

These are our tomato seedlings which we are going to keep growing in our seedling house in Miss Raven's classroom until they are big enough to go in the garden...

Here are the bean seeds we planted before the holidays...

We are going to plant a bean tee pee with them as soon as they are big enough! 

On Monday Bella, Thea-Jane and Tyesha came to harvest our kale and make kale chips...

Once we had cut the kale, we checked out our other vegetables. 

Our broccoli is growing nicely...

 Our celery, silverbeet, and beetroot are all ready to be eaten too.

Our garlic is growing nicely as well. It is meant to be harvested on the shorted day of the year which is the 22nd of December. 

We took the kale to the kitchen and rinsed it and ripped it into small pieces.

We sprayed it with olive oil and sprinkled it with a little salt.

Then we put it in the oven at 175 degrees celsius for about ten minutes.

We baked it until it went brown on the edges.

Then we took it out and waited for it to cool.

Once it was cool we tried some. It was yummy! 

Bella, Thea-Jane and Tyesha took a bag home each to share with their families...

Here is a link to the recipe we used for baked kale chips if you want to try and make some at home!

In order to make space for our seedlings, Miss Raven harvested our other vegetables on Thursday.

She put the celery, silverbeet, spinach and beetroot into recycled supermarket bags and offered it to the Enviro Club children who had planted, watered and weeded it. 

Here it all is ready to go home next to the Seaview Block children's lettuces.

This Wednesday Cade, one of our Enviro Club students, started making a wooden box from an old crate his Dad got from his work with our Caretaker Mr Gillions. He is planning to plant the New World 'Little Garden' seedlings that his class is growing in it.

If you are growing New World Little Garden seedlings

at home too, click on this link to go to there webpage for information on how to repot your seedlings and great growing hints and tips. The website also has some fun activities too! 

Enjoy growing your own little garden at home...