Maintaining the school garden is all about doing little jobs often! It’s not that hard if everyone pitches in. THE PEST TEAM No, this isn’t the team of pests! The Pest Team keeps an eye on the vegetables to make sure that the pests aren’t eating them before the class gets the chance to. […]
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Jobs – The Planting Team

Maintaining the school garden is all about doing little jobs often! It’s not that hard if everyone pitches in. THE PLANTING TEAM The Planting Team has to get to work whenever there is a space in the garden for a new crop. The team has to research which vegies to grow to suit the […]
Jobs – The Harvesting Team

Maintaining the school garden is all about doing little jobs often! It’s not that hard if everyone pitches in. THE HARVESTING TEAM The Harvesting Team gets to do this fun job whenever the fruit and vegetables are ripening. The rule is that the Harvesting Team should always whistle while they work! That way, everyone […]
Jobs – The Weeding Team

Maintaining the school garden is all about doing little jobs often! It’s not that hard if everyone pitches in. THE WEEDING TEAM The Weeding Team should weed once a week. If weeds are allowed to get too big, they steal the nutrients from the other plants, bring bad bugs into the garden and smother […]
Jobs – The Watering Team

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 […]