Week 2 of the TUI Garden Challenge

They are sprouting! 

Our peas are sprouting!  To make it a bit warmer for them we found an old fish aquarium and a plastic storage container to make mini glass houses.

Our mini glass houses for our peas

We sent out a call for the parents to donate any containers and pots that they may have that are surplus to requirements.
Thank you for the contributions that we have already recieved (and used!)

Tuesday 14 August
Today we topped up our other planting boxwith soil.  Bella, Mackenzie and Gemma all helped by filling up buckets with soil and tipping them into the box.  We then dug holes and planted our kale and spinach seedlings.  We also tipped soil into our large pink donated, recycled container and planted our sugar snap peas.

 Wednesday 15 August
From our own fossicking efforts, we found a reductant bird cage..... what to do with it!
We thought that it could be perfect to transplant our strawberries into.

Hopefuly it will keep the birds out!
 
Our enthusiastic gardeners have planted the remainder of the seedlings now.
We will ask the parents to bring in soda bottles so we can create some cloches.

We lined the bottom of the birdcage with a tui bag and cut holes in it for drainage.

We used the stones from the old aquarium for more drainage and filled up the base with TUI Strawberry Mix

With it all full, it were able to transparent the strawberry plants.  We gave them a bit of the trim as some of the leaves and roots had died.  We mixed these back into the soil

The finished result.  So the berries will stay clean we covered the soil with more of the TUI bags.