Sustainability Leadership Team joins forces with the Gardening Club

Today during gardening club, students got ready for the cooler weather by planting some cauliflower, broccoli, beetroot, parsley, cabbage, dill and spring onions.

We learnt that companion planting is important, especially in the plants we planted today. All the crops we planted were purposely put together because as that is how those particular vegetables and herbs grow best.
We also learnt that parsley and dill also ward off pests that bother cabbage and marigolds are also found in the gardening beds, as they self-seed, which helps with the growing of cauliflower.

We ask some of the students what they did today:

“We had to dig trenches and fill them with our brand new soil.” (Will)
The kids learnt that “plants need water to grow along with sunshine.” (Ethan).
Children join the garden club “because it is calm.” (Harris)
“Most children agreed that the best thing about gardening club is the planting part.” (Alice, Abbie)
Someone even found a potato – Well done Adona.

Gardening club is every Thursday at lunchtime after eating time, we welcome everyone.

Sustainability Leadership Team and Gardening Club