Vegie Heaven

Times up for your Spud in a Bucket

2011-12-10T17:21:00.000-08:00

How are those potatoes going? It’s the last weekend for watering and bestowing lots of tender loving care on your potatoes. The Annual Woodstock School Potato Growing Competition is Tues 13 Dec. Please bring your buckets in on Tuesday morning to your classroom and we’ll see who as the biggest and the most potatoes.

Meet our new Scarecrow "Sticky"

2011-12-03T23:48:00.000-08:00

As part of Room 15's technology unit 'Making Plastic Fantastic" these clever boys reused milk bottles to make this wonderful scarecrow for our garden. His name is 'Sticky" He will make a wonderful addition to Vegie Heaven

Meet Sticky

Gardening Goodies

2011-11-19T15:15:00.000-08:00

Mrs Avis Leeson kindly donated these healthy looking cabbage trees for our new school entrance garden.

Thanks to all those families who kindly donated McCain Veggies barcodes. We won a watering can, gardening gloves, packets of seeds, netting for our strawberries, plant labels and a sack

Sarah Pitts shows off a selection of our winning goodies

Another successful Vegie Stall

2011-11-17T00:19:00.000-08:00

In our most recent vegie stall, we sold silverbeet, cabbage, celery, parsley, rhubarb and worm wee. Thanks to everyone who came and made our stall a success.

All our produce ready to sell

Setting Up

It was busy on the stall

Room 4 plant a Kauri Tree

2011-11-13T15:43:00.001-08:00

A big thank you to Room 4's teacher Mrs Addison who donated a Kauri tree for our hill area. Her class helped plant the tree, which will provide great shade for children using the slide.

The Kauri tree donated by Mrs Addison and planted by her class, Room 4.

Potato Growers - Ready, Set, Grow

2011-10-26T21:07:00.000-07:00

Children today got given their seed potato for our Spud in a Bucket competition. I wonder who can grow the biggest and the most potatoes in their bucket.

Keen spud growers – buckets in hand – ready for planting

Our Enviro Agents helping our Potato growers

This will be worth the wait

Spud in a Bucket Ready to go!!

2011-10-26T01:19:00.000-07:00

Get your entry in for our famous Spud in the Bucket competition. As you can see the seed potatoes are all ready to go.

Which Potato is the winning one?

Some potatoes are sprouting already!

Spud in a Bucket Competition

2011-10-24T23:06:00.000-07:00

The GREAT SPUD growing contest 2011

Bring 50 cents and this will get you a spud and instructions on what you need to do…

Put coin in a named envelope in a the slot in the office by Thursday 27 October

Bring your bucket to school on the 27th and you’ll plant your spud at school with Rod and then take it home , LOOK after it then bring it all back to school on Tuesday 13th December

Find out who has the most SPUDS under the soil. (Don’t peek ‘till then.)

You will need to reuse last years bucket or supply a new one.

Vegie Heaven: Vegie Stall - A success!!

2011-10-04T23:32:00.000-07:00

Vegie Heaven: Vegie Stall - A success!!: Thank you to all the parents that supported our first spring vegie stall today. We raised $50.50. This money will go towards buying new s...

Vegie Stall - A success!!

2011-10-04T19:16:00.001-07:00

Thank you to all the parents that supported our first spring vegie stall today. We raised $50.50. This money will go towards buying new seedlings for our vegie garden

Vegie Stall - Wednesday 5 October 2.45pm

2011-10-04T00:26:00.000-07:00

The Enviro Agents have beautiful fresh produce straight out of the our Vegie Garden - Vegie Heaven, for sale today - Wednesday 5 October 2.45pm.
Look at what is on offer

Our Broccoli are almost bigger than a child

Silver beet - a great source of iron

Carrots, Carrots and more Carrots

Everybody always needs parsley on hand

Don't miss out. Bring your money and get in quick to buy these high quality vegetables, grown for you with love!

Vegie update

2011-09-27T00:16:00.000-07:00

Just a quick photo update of how our vegies are looking - delicious don't you think!

Green goodness growing fast

Our Mural Takes Shape

2011-09-12T21:15:00.001-07:00

After lots of hard work from the Enviro Agents our mural beside Vegie Heaven (our school vegetable garden) is taking shape. As you can see it looks great - and hopefully it will help our vegies grow even bigger.

Don't the sheep just look too cute

Enviro Agents Sita and Pyper are proud of their work

McCain School Veggie Patch Competition

2011-09-08T20:24:00.001-07:00

Mr. Barnsdall, our school caretaker, has entered our school into the McCain School Veggie Patch Competition. If you use any McCain frozen vegetables, or Purely Potatoes, we would very much appreciate you sending the bar codes from these products packaging along to school with your child/children. There will be a collection point in each class room from which Mr. Barnsdall will collect the bar codes on a weekly basis and we have a chart in reception that will show classroom progress. The bar codes are then sent back to McCain Head Office and are redeemable for garden purchases from Mitre 10:

35 points = veggie seeds

35 points = plant identifiers

75 points = hessian bags to grow potatoes

150 points = organic compost

175 points = fertiliser

90 points = sheep pellets

900 points = digging essential set (includes hoe & spade)

555 points = mini patch kits

1485 points = veggie patch starter pack kits- every thing we need to build our veggie patch

Potato Planting

2011-09-06T01:39:00.000-07:00

Today we planted potatoes in Vegie Heaven. Everyone got involved and got their hands dirty. Will they be ready in time for Christmas?

The first one goes in

It is a real team effort

John gets digging

Daisy uses all her Muscles

Wanted: Hay!

2011-09-05T21:13:00.000-07:00

We would love some HAY to use in our vegie garden. If anyone knows someone who can provide free hay, it would be much appreciated.

Spud in a Bucket

2011-09-05T00:26:00.000-07:00

We will be organising our “Spud in a Bucket” competition again later this term – so start hunting out those old buckets with holes in the bottom of them. We will be again asking for a gold coin donation to put towards the cost of the seed potato. Further details will be sent home soon.

Wanted: Crushed Shells

2011-09-04T14:41:00.000-07:00

A request, we would like to put a crushed shell path around our veggie garden and would be very grateful for any donations of shells that you might pick up when you’re at the beach. Bring them to school and give them to Rod, our caretaker.

Wanted: Crushed Shells

The Orchard - Vegie Heaven

2011-09-04T01:14:00.001-07:00

Our School has begun to create an Orchard beside the school vegie garden. We can't wait until the trees grow enough for us to enjoy eating the fruit.

The beginnings of our school orchard

We’d like to thank Mrs Avis Leeson who donated a very healthy plum tree to add to our orchard.

Paper for Trees

2011-09-01T20:11:00.000-07:00

We’d like to thank Paper4trees who supplied us with the new plants in our garden by the entrance to our school and several fruit trees for our emerging orchard. The trees represent the total weight of paper we have recycled in the last year. The trees were funded by the Lion Foundation, Rent-a Dent and Design Mobel.

Our entrance will be really enhanced when the plants grow bigger

Plants funding by Paper for Trees

Our Vegie Garden Mural Begins

2011-08-31T21:00:00.000-07:00

The enviro agents are also in the process of painting a mural on the back of Rod’s shed, beside our Vegie Garden . It looks fantastic. They have been helped by Ben Mills and Sarah Menzies.

Before

The mural starts to take shape

More progress being made

What a difference some colour makes

We’d like to thank the family of John and Elizabeth McLean who have kindly donated paint for our mural that is in the process of being created next to our veggie garden

Woodstock Enviro Agents Receive Tui Pack

2011-08-30T15:07:00.000-07:00

We have entered our garden into the Tui Garden Competition.

Our Enviro Agents are very excited to receive our Tui Pack

We hope we win lots of Tui Products. Help us by collecting McCain frozen and Purely Potato barcodes. The more barcodes we collect the more vegetable plants and equipment we can win.

Vege Heaven Test

2011-08-30T00:20:00.000-07:00

Vege Heaven

Vegie Heaven

Times up for your Spud in a Bucket

Meet our new Scarecrow "Sticky"

Gardening Goodies

Another successful Vegie Stall

Room 4 plant a Kauri Tree

More Vegies ready to sell

Potato Growers - Ready, Set, Grow

Spud in a Bucket Ready to go!!

Spud in a Bucket Competition

Vegie Heaven: Vegie Stall - A success!!

Vegie Stall - A success!!

Vegie Stall - Wednesday 5 October 2.45pm

Vegie update

Our Mural Takes Shape

McCain School Veggie Patch Competition

Potato Planting

Wanted: Hay!

Spud in a Bucket

Wanted: Crushed Shells

The Orchard - Vegie Heaven

Paper for Trees

Our Vegie Garden Mural Begins

Woodstock Enviro Agents Receive Tui Pack

Vege Heaven Test