Times up for your Spud in a Bucket

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"

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

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

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

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.

More Vegies ready to sell

Vegie Heaven is looking amazing at the moment.  We have all sorts of different vegetables just about ready to pick.  Look out for our next vegie stall coming up next week.

Hamish is getting the Cabbages ready for harvest

These Vegies are huge

 

Daisy and Hamish have been working hard in Vegie Heaven

We have to try and get rid of these snails trying to eat our lettuces

Some early broccoli ready for the teachers to eat

Yum lettuce

Our Strawberries are growing well

Herbs make any meal delicious

More Herbs in Herb Heaven

Wow "It's taller than us"

We told you Vegie Heaven is looking amazing!



Potato Growers - Ready, Set, Grow

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!!

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

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!!

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!!

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

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

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

Green goodness growing fast

Our Mural Takes Shape

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

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

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