GROWING MINDS
THE rain has finally stopped. We can garden. We really should not complain, Babinda is the wettest town in Australia after all.
We had been waiting all week to plant the seedlings for our Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden gardening and cooking program.
Our class had already weeded the garden beds.
Then we turned the soil and applied organic fertiliser to enrich the soil.
While we were harvesting our sweet potato crop, we found lots of long, squiggly earthworms.
Mrs Stone told us to take care with the earthworms since they are our gardening buddies. They help to keep our soil in good condition to grow our herbs and vegetables.
While we were weeding the garden beds, we discovered some capsicum plants and lots of small tomato plants which had started to grow in the soil.
We carefully dug the tomato plants out and transplanted them into the tomato bed.
We have lots of tomato plants growing and some are already fruiting.
This is very exciting.
This season we have planted corn, apple cucumbers, carrots, lettuce, beetroot, basil, chives and parsley. In class we have been learning about spacing plants so they can grow properly. We also learnt about companion planting.
In the coming weeks, we will nurture our seedlings and next term we will be able to make some delicious food using the produce.
We are looking forward to making bruschetta, pasta with basil pesto or tomato passata, tomato and corn salsa, salads and hot, juicy corn on the cob.
Yum. This is making me hungry.