Carrots, Strawberries and More

This is what we do at gardening group in Papatoetoe Central School. Gardening takes place in Room 18 or in the garden at break 1 or 2. The teacher is Miss Rands-Trevor. We plant strawberries, silver beet, potatoes, carrots, radishes, cucumbers, lettuce, snow peas, lettuce and much more.

We planted carrot and snow peas seeds last term. Firstly, we dig a hole the size of your pinky and then we put the seeds in the holes and we cover the seeds with the soil. We water the seeds with the hose and we wait for them to grow. When they have grown, we can take some of the fruit or vegetables home.

We pull out the weeds so they don’t affect the plants or damage them. We also plant flowers in the beautiful garden to bring the bees. When we get to the garden we rake the leaves out of the way. Everyone in the group has journals to record what we do and we have lists of things that we could plant and when.

So that is what we do at gardening. I like gardening because we get to take the fruit or vegetables home. Danica enjoys gardening because it’s really fun to plant some seeds. Gaylene loves finding and tasting the red, ripe strawberries when we go down to the garden.

By Joanna L, Danica C and Gaylene E.