Is it a pickle? Is it a green boomerang? No it’s a flying squash!!! Soaring over the chook pen in a wrestling match with the passionfruit vine!!!!
THIS HUGE (50cm wide) SQUASH IS NOW IN OUR TUMMIES! We turned it into yummy brown rice squash balls – to check out all of our recipes click on the “recipe” tag at the top, in the middle of this page.
AND IT IS HANGING FROM A TREE!?
The pumpkin looks like a big U.F.O AND IS DARK GREEN!.
Come and check it out in the garden today it is worth it!
Go to the compost piles (opposite the hothouse) and it is just past there near the track and the indigenous garden!
This self seeded pumpkin plant is definitely showing who is boss by taking over this deciduous tree on the boundary of the garden fence. There is a pumpkin growing 2m above the ground in the tree!!!!!!
pH 7 with in neutral in garden 22 – no action required
Felix is helping me learn how to pick up a chook.
I try on my own the key is to hold the wings tight without hurting the chook. Otherwise the wings will flap in your face.
We (Daniel P, Daniel M, Devon, Poppy and Ashlee) are proud of our garden we have carrot lettuce, edible flowers, tomatoes. growing they are mostly companion plants. The data we collected was
– Soil Temperature 25 C 5 degrees less than air temperature.
– pH 7 we know is neutral
-moist 5 (not dry, not wet but , moist)
Soil is very dry, Moisture 5, so we watered
P.H 2
21 degrees in soil
OrganicGardening.InMySanctuary.Net A fabulous website with lots of organic gardening tips.
At the moment we are studying how to get rid of the White Cabbage Moth. We have got many great tips from this weblink – http://organicgardening.inmysanctuary.net/wordpress/2013/05/white-cabbage-butterfly/
This is a female because there are two spots on each front wing and the male has one.
Schools Tree Day 2015 – Friday July 24th
Bialik will mark this special day by expanding our indigenous garden (IG).
This will be our first Tree Day event. Students enthusiastically investigated how the Aboriginals harvested and used these plants. Hence the students selected the plants based on their
-suitability for the IG location taking into account, weather, soil conditions, available space an water
-smell, texture, edibility, medicinal properties, suitability for tool making and weaving
