Our last winterish days we used wisely to get ready for spring. When the weather was still a bit up and down we’ve been busy making the garden look pretty. The kids made out of recycled timber borders for around the fruit trees, it will keep the grass away and the mulch in place, some of the fruit trees we planted in June are showing their first blossoms, it’s so good to see that the trees have settled in well.

The absolute highlight is the new shade house which is only just finished.

There is plenty of shelving and an amazing sprinkler system installed by Mr. Webster, the sprinklers let off fine mist to keep our freshly planted spring/summer seeds moist all the time. It’s incredible to see that within a week the first seeds are starting to pop up already!

On a rainy day we did some learning via a google slide about landfill, focusing on the environment and what we can do better to reduce rubbish.

With Mr. Webster the kids built a planter box which we named the ’landfill box’.

We collected rubbish over a few weeks with non-recyclable items like soft plastic, polystyrene and face masks. This went into the bottom of the box in a sealed plastic bag. The kids painted it in bright colours as a garden feature but really it is to remind us to look after our environment.