We made it back into the gardens again, wahoo, but we only had a few weeks left before the holidays, so we made the most of it.

Whaea Clare showed us how we can make our own seed raising mix. The recipe is:

1 part sand

2 parts rehydrated coir fibre

3 parts screened compost (can substitute 1 part for vermicast from the worm farm)

We used this to sow some seeds from last term’s planting.

We also put up one of the new garden beds and the tamariki were so excited to fill in with soil and plant it up.

This month was both Bee Awareness Month (Ms Barr’s favourite) AND Te Wiki o te Reo Māori. So we talked about what we could do in the garden to encourage bees in, and why flowers are so important in the vegetable garden. During Te Wiki o te Reo Māori we used te reo phases in the garden and discussed how the Maramataka (the Māori lunar calendar) works. In Term 1 next year we’re going to try and garden by the Maramataka.