Make a water feature
A water feature with a small amount of mud encourages predators such as dragon flies and frogs, helping keep garden pests to a minimum.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Newsletter: Term 3, Week 6
MORE HARVESTING FUN
Class 1M had snow peas for Crunch and Sip and 4B had a big harvest of snow peas, rainbow silver beet and parsley. Class 2S had a huge harvest of cauliflower, coriander, snow peas, parsley, sweet potato and even ginger! Yummo!
HEALTHY KIDS MAGAZINE
Our school garden has attracted the attention of the Healthy Kids magazine. We have been asked lots of questions about our garden, how it came to be, why we all want one and how we have started creating it. Can’t wait to see the article!
Class 1M had snow peas for Crunch and Sip and 4B had a big harvest of snow peas, rainbow silver beet and parsley. Class 2S had a huge harvest of cauliflower, coriander, snow peas, parsley, sweet potato and even ginger! Yummo!
Our school garden has attracted the attention of the Healthy Kids magazine. We have been asked lots of questions about our garden, how it came to be, why we all want one and how we have started creating it. Can’t wait to see the article!
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Year 4 - Eco Food Garden website
Seven of Mrs Hall’s Year 4 students made a fantastic Eco Food Garden Website all about the HHPS Eco Food Garden. It’s got planting games, a puzzle based on the garden design, interviews with Rhonda French and an animation all about growing potatoes. Suchclever work kids. Well done.
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Mr Green the gecko says ...
“Reuse old tights and stockings”
No, not for me to wear, for you to use in your garden! Leftover pantyhose and the like make great garden ties, holding plants in place without damaging tender stalks and stems.
No, not for me to wear, for you to use in your garden! Leftover pantyhose and the like make great garden ties, holding plants in place without damaging tender stalks and stems.
Newsletter: Term 3, Week 4
SNAGGING A BIG PROFIT!
The HHPS Eco Food Garden Bunnings BBQ went very well at the weekend, raising $1283.35. Thanks so much to all our wonderful helpers who toiled at the till and over hotplates! Lots of customers were impressed with our sausage sandwiches and our plans for the school garden. Construction of the new classrooms is taking shape and we are looking forward to working our magic on the area outside the new buildings, creating a beautiful garden for our children to learn from and enjoy.
WE ARE WINNERS!
We are the proud new owners of a playground seat made from recycled green Coles bags. We told the Coles Every Bag Counts Competition how we reuse our food scraps for compost and they were impressed enough to award us with a prize. They said: “Thanks for helping Coles to recycle as many reusable bags as possible in June. Thanks to your school and our customers, over 30,000 bags were returned to Coles stores during our National two-week campaign, which I think you will agree is an amazing result!” Thanks to Victorian-based recycled product company Replas for manufacturing the seat. www.replas.com.au
The HHPS Eco Food Garden Bunnings BBQ went very well at the weekend, raising $1283.35. Thanks so much to all our wonderful helpers who toiled at the till and over hotplates! Lots of customers were impressed with our sausage sandwiches and our plans for the school garden. Construction of the new classrooms is taking shape and we are looking forward to working our magic on the area outside the new buildings, creating a beautiful garden for our children to learn from and enjoy.
WE ARE WINNERS!
We are the proud new owners of a playground seat made from recycled green Coles bags. We told the Coles Every Bag Counts Competition how we reuse our food scraps for compost and they were impressed enough to award us with a prize. They said: “Thanks for helping Coles to recycle as many reusable bags as possible in June. Thanks to your school and our customers, over 30,000 bags were returned to Coles stores during our National two-week campaign, which I think you will agree is an amazing result!” Thanks to Victorian-based recycled product company Replas for manufacturing the seat. www.replas.com.au
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