We watched the calendar and decided to plant our garlic bulbs on June 23rd, before the new moon started. This loosely tied in with Matariki as a good time to plant root vegetables.
A Gardener's Guide to Matariki
With our donated bulbs, the children gathered to break them up into cloves. Then we counted them out in rows of 10 to get 20 cloves, with a few thrown in for good measure! We needed to clear some space in the garden bed so our 'gardeners' pulled out some rocket, shaking the root system and putting all that good soil back into the ground. (The rocket was washed and put on the sharing table - we hope someone had a nice salad or stirred it through some pasta!).
We made 3 trenches with the trowel and then the children put their cloves in (pointy end UP), spacing them apart and giving them lots of room to grow. Their gentle little hands moved the dirt over the cloves and covered them up. I think they got watered. If not, Mother Nature did her part later in the afternoon with a light drizzle!
Then the children designed their own envelope and put the garlic inside, ready to go home and be planted.A great team effort by the children of Gwen Rogers. We're all looking forward to garlic at the end of the year!
A Gardener's Guide to Matariki
With our donated bulbs, the children gathered to break them up into cloves. Then we counted them out in rows of 10 to get 20 cloves, with a few thrown in for good measure! We needed to clear some space in the garden bed so our 'gardeners' pulled out some rocket, shaking the root system and putting all that good soil back into the ground. (The rocket was washed and put on the sharing table - we hope someone had a nice salad or stirred it through some pasta!).
We made 3 trenches with the trowel and then the children put their cloves in (pointy end UP), spacing them apart and giving them lots of room to grow. Their gentle little hands moved the dirt over the cloves and covered them up. I think they got watered. If not, Mother Nature did her part later in the afternoon with a light drizzle!
Then the children designed their own envelope and put the garlic inside, ready to go home and be planted.A great team effort by the children of Gwen Rogers. We're all looking forward to garlic at the end of the year!
We've found our new garlic plants sprouting through today! Kids very excited : )
ReplyDeleteGreat work guys! Hugo was stoked to be planting his garlic. One pot, stones in the bottom, potting mix, garlic, water. "Is that it finished?- Gardening is easy Mum!"
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