Welcome back to 2021. We are hoping for a year where we can get a lot achieved and hopefully COVID won’t get in our way.

We have started the year with our Year 8s. We have around 30 children participating. Our gardens got very messy over the holidays but we were pleased that the corn, sunflowers, zucchini, tomatoes, beans and melons did well.

We also did an experiment with our mulch. One was a living mulch another was pea straw and another was wood chip. The wood chip and living mulch patches survived better over summer (especially as we weren’t allowed the irrigation on).

We have spent time cleaning up our patches and re-planting our beds and getting our winter vegetables seedling started. We are also loving our flowers in the garden which bring in beneficial insects and pollinators.