Today we found and dug up potatoes, potatoes and more potatoes!
DON’T WASTE YOUR OLD POTATOES! When they are old and start to grow shoots dig a 30cm hole and plant them! Potatoes are tubers, grow underground and off a central stem. They need around 60-90 days frost-free to successfully grow. It it so much fun finding them when you dig up the soil! 5A students
Growing potatoes is a lot more complex than you think! You get a potato and wait until it gets eyes, which is a white sprout that comes out of the potato. When you see this it means it is ready to come out of the ground. If you leave it to grow eyes for longer, you’ll see these BIG brown balls which are the start of new potato plants!!!! Each potato can have up to 6 eyes -so up to six new potato plants!!! We berry the potato eyes at least 50cm to ensure they have lots of space to underground to grow potatoes.
In the garden, on Wednesday we were the first class to dig up potatoes!!!! We didn’t know if we had any…..but there were 3 big ones! It was exciting. The skin was really good in colour and the potatoes had grown really well, I hope we find more.
Group four made organic pesticide, which is used to keep pests away. You need- 10 Chillies, 4 cloves of Garlic, 4 teaspoons of detergent and 1 litre of boiling water.
Method-
Finley chop the Garlic and the Chillies.
Add 2 teaspoons of detergent and 1L of boiling water.
Mix well and then pour in a jug.
Leave for 24 hours then strain and spray on plants.
We noticed garden bed 6 was really dry so we spread cow manure over it.
In the garden group 3 we planted Coriander. We were digging up the weeds but instead we found five gigantic Tunips!!! Then we planted the Coriander. We made a big teepee, with sticks for the Snowpeas to grow around. Hopefully the Coriander will grow, and our Snowpeas will be a success and yummy!!!!
Group 2 fed the chooks, cleared the egg shells and gave the chooks there scraps from the kitchen. We pulled out the old basil plants and put it in the chooks house. Using shovels we turned the soil upside down and made it flat ready for the next plants.
Group 1 started by pulling out some weeds then we squashed flowers and left them on the garden bed because it is good for the soil. We also put the mulch over the flowers. By doing this we have put nutrients in the garden to make the plants grow healthy.