Gardening Club: Harvest time

This was an exciting week for the gardening club because the beans are ready to harvest.  During first break on Tuesday the students had their first attempt at harvesting beans.  It was a very tricky job because beans hide behind and under the leaves. We picked a variety of green, purple and yellow beans and then during second break allowed the general school population to try a bean. The students learned that even though the beans were different colours, they still tasted the same.

The other exciting news is we have about ten huge rockmelon growing. They are still very green but it shouldn’t be very long before we can harvest them.

Feed the Worms

This week we expanded our worm farms from two farms to three and we have come to realisation that we are not creating enough food for the worms, even with Camp Australia’s help so the students have suggested we have “Feed the Worms, Fridays”. 

Students are being asked to bring a bag of food scraps from home and first break on Fridays we will put it in the farms.  If the food is not needed that week, it will be placed in our tumble bin.

Containers for change

We are beginning to really recycle our containers for change but there is more we can do. We already have half filled a 240L bin of containers.  The biggest problem is the milk products being left in the containers.  This milk is curdling and then contaminating the other containers.  Last term, we nearly lost a 240L bin of containers because of weevils. The club helped Mrs Kent rescue the containers which was not a nice job but we cannot keep fixing this problem.  Please support us by demonstrating to your child how to prepare a container for recycling. 

The attached image demonstrates the contamination that is occurring.

Here is the easy process.

1. Empty your container completely.
2. Remove the straw or lid
3. Place the contain in the correct bin.
4. Take care to place food scraps in the “feed the worm” bin and general waste in the rubbish bin.

Mrs Karen Kent