It’s hard to know when to grow vegetables in the school garden. The chart below will shows the best growing time for them in all of the regions across Australia. But, always ask the staff at your local garden centre as they will be the experts on what to grow in your area throughout the…
Maintaining the school garden is all about doing little jobs often! It’s not that hard if everyone pitches in. THE WATERING TEAM The Watering Team has to water vegetable gardens every day and the rest of the garden twice a week. Just like us, plants need to drink! In summer, they need to drink…
1 orange 2/3 cup sugar 1 egg 1/2 cup fresh orange juice 100g butter 1 1/2 cups plain flour 1 tsp baking powder 1 tsp bicarb soda Wash hands. Ask a parent for help with the food processor. Prepare a muffin pan by putting a paper muffin case in each one. Wash the orange well…
Weeds in the garden are a nuisance. They steal nutrients and water from the other plants, attract bad bugs into the garden and sometimes smother everything. Once you have weeds in the garden, you have to start ‘weeding’ regularly to stop them from taking over. There are a two ways that you can get rid…
One year of seeds brings seven years of weeds! Have a think about what that sentence means? Can you figure it out? It means that if for just one year you let the weeds in your garden get big enough to produce flowers that release seeds, there will be enough seeds in your garden to…
Did you manage to grow some pumpkins for Halloween this year? Don’t worry if you didn’t as they’re still available at the vegie stores and since they’re all different sizes so there’s a pumpkin for every location. It’s one of those fun activities that’s best done as a tag team. Mum and Dad can be…
Gardeners apply a wetting agent, sometimes called a soil wetter, to the garden to make sure that the water from the sprinklers and the rain soaks right down into the soil. Over time, the soil in the garden or in pots becomes ‘hydrophobic‘ which means that the water won’t soak into it. If this happens,…
Capsicums are a confusing vegetable; not least because they are actually a fruit! But also because they are related to hot chillies but yet they taste sweet. They are crazy! Crazy or not, they’re delicious. They can be cut into strips and used to dig into dips, they can be chopped into tiny pieces and…
Plants need their roots to be healthy so that they can take up water and nutrients from the soil to keep them fed. But, sometimes the roots can become sick and they aren’t able to do the job that they are supposed to do. Root rot is a disease that affects the roots of plants. …
Since the beginning of time parents have been asking the age old question, ‘How do I get my kids to eat broccoli?’ It is a bit of a mystery as to what it is about broccoli that universally turns kids off. It’s actually a great looking vegetable, just like a tree, and it doesn’t taste…