This term the boys and girls of Rm4 will be competing in a garden competition.
The rules are simple
- Produce an edible garden that is sustainable for the whole year.
That means that each group must.
- Plant seasonally.
- Maintain healthy soil.
- Produce healthy organic plants.
- Maintain and gather food throughout the year.
1. What is the meaning of organic gardening?
Definition: Related to or delivered living plants.
Produce without the uses of fertilizer persists and artificial chemicals.
2. What does this mean for our gardening
No modern man made synthetic fertilizer.
Cow/Sheep/Horse/Chicken Manure
Vegetable and fruit food scraps.
Kina shells hua pea of the paua, seaweed,Fish frames and comfrey tea (leaves in water.)
Non Insecticides/Poisons.
How do we attract the bees?
How do we get rid of the insect pest?
NZ Plants (Vegetables)
March-April-May-June
Growing time
Our vegetable need to be ready for puanga (matariki)
Sturdy Vegetable plants-Rain drop in temperature,lack of sun frost.
Act 1
Find the plants suitable for your garden.
Act 2
Design a vegetable garden plan.
Flowers/Bees.
Organic Sustainable Garden.
No man made soil
Fertilizer
Manure-Sheep,Horse,Chicken
Feeding your garden compost.
Companion planting
Frost/long lasting/resistance/seasonal planting.
Workplace hazards in our garden.
W.A.L.T: Identify and inform our tautoro gardeners about the potential dangers about the potential changes in our gardens.
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