Planting Our Spring Garden

Yay! Summer is coming.

We had a class discussion 

and chose to plant a pizza garden this Spring.

Why?

Because we all LOVE PIZZA!

We chose plants that make great pizza toppings

basil      peppers      tomatoes      spring onions

Tylah-Dawn and Nevaeh-Lee measured our garden space.

 

 We planned where the plants would fit.  We had to use lots of measuring and maths problem solving!  We decided our garden is too small and we couldn't fit all of the plants in.  We could only plant 2 tomato plants, 2 capsicums, 4 basil plants and a few spring onions.

When Kullan was in Room 1, he learnt that if you plant marigold flowers in your vege garden, they help keep the bugs off your plants.  Snails do not like marigold flowers.  This is called 'Companion Planting'.

Thanks Kullan, what a great idea!  So we planted 4 marigold plants too! 

 

Our vege garden needed some compost.  Dugan got us a wheelbarrow of compost from our worm bins.  Pooh!  It didn't smell very nice but we know the plants will love the rich nutrients.  We turned the dirt over in our garden, put the compost on top, then mixed it up. 

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