4HB Gardeners

Students in 4HB have been growing vegetables this year in our garden patch.

Through this gardening program, students have been learning about how to plant and care for vegetables. They have had an explosion of zuchinni recently, with two of them weighing nearly 500g each!

Other vegetables that they are growing include peas, cherry tomatoes, leek, capsicum, cucumber and corn. They are also growing Russian garlic that one of the students brought in from home.

Taking turns each week, the students water, fertilise and carefully weed their garden watching excitedly as their seedlings are growing.  During the growing season, students have had to research recipes for making natural pesticides to ward off aphids that inhabited the corn and a white dusty mould that was spreading on the zuchinni plant. They were surprised at how effective these recipes were!

Students in Stage 1 have been responsible for caring for the worm farms. 4HB used the worm farm by-products to fertilise the vegetable garden.

Students have enjoyed eating the fresh veggies, feeling the cherry tomatoes 'pop' in their mouths and trying food they don't normally eat. They used zuchinni to make a Zuchinni and Carrot slice. The smell of it cooking wafted through to all the Stage 2 classrooms, making mouths water.

Students have sold excess produce to staff. The gardening program is an invaluable part of our students' education at Toormina Public School.