Garden+Challenge

Tui Garden Challenge toc There is never a shortage of things to do, no limit to the lessons that can be learnt in the garden. Thank you for following Waiau Pa's Tui Challenge :)
 * ==== - **Last Tui Challenge Update** ==== ||
 * Something to think about - Your best harvest may be the pleasure you get from working with friends and family.


 * __Have a look at Jack the reporters final update below.__**

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 * Late October**
 * ====**// - //** **Favourite vegetables and fruit!** ====


 * Not so sure ** about the last one.... chocolate ? :) have a look at the film below. ||
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 * October**
 * Waiau Pa's edible garden

- Stir fry Recipe
||  || 2 Cauliflower 2 Broccoli 6 Carrots 2 onions handfull of Beans 1 Garlic A packet of Noodles Soy Sauce
 * **__Ingredients__**

1. Harvest the vegetables from your edible garden. 2. Wash the vegetables. 3. Cut up the vegetables into small pieces. 4. Cook the onions and garlic in oil in a heated fry pan. 5. Add in the vegetables. 6. Boil noodles in a pot with water. Drain water when cooked. 7. Add vegetables in with the noodles and soy sauce for extra flavour 8. Serve vegetables on noodles in a bowl. 9. Enjoy your delicious meal || Check out the **__photos__** of our delicious stir-fry below

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 * ==== -Waiau Pa Community ====

Waiau Pa school holds working bees one morning every school holidays where we tidy the edible garden, weed and prune the flower gardens around the school. Two more weeks until the school holidays :)

We also pot up seedlings and plants to sell at our Calf Club day. This year we will also sell our lettuces we have raised from seeds!! Thanks TUI for our seeds.

The __money raised from this is then used to purchase our seeds and other gardening needs__.

Here is a picture of two of our lettuces so far..... they are tiny!!! There are many more. ||
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We filled our pots with seeling mix, put in the seed, added a little more mix and watered. The Sunflowers will add colour to our edible garden :)
 * - September**
 * ====- Room 5 are growing ** SUNFLOWERS!! **====

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- **Early September** We made a __** delicious stir-fry. **__ We used the cauliflowers, broccoli, carrots, beans, onions and garlic straight out of our edible garden!! ||
 * ====- Conservation Groups Winter harvest festival!!====
 * We will include the recipe soon :) ||

interviews ** Josh ** (another very keen gardener) ||
 * ====- Jack the reporter====
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In this video Emma will explain how we will plant our
 * Room 5 love gardening.

-TUI lettuce seeds
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__** End of August **__

- **Edible gardens**
Gardening is a lot of fun. We love planting, growing, and of course eating our home grown food!!!

Our edible garden at Waiau pa schoo l has encouraged healthy eating for many children, parents and staff. Next week, Wednesday we will be holding our **MID/END WINTER LUNCH**. We will be harvesting our vegetables and making 'Stir-fry', YUM!! We will post photos next week :)

- Here are some of our __poems__ about our edible gardens.

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We visited **Mitre 10 Pukekohe** and redeemed our Tui voucher!! Thanks TUI & Mitre 10!!!!!!
 * ====- Mitre 10 Pukekohe==== || Conservation group are very happy!! Mrs Houteman- Zouwe always has great garden and planting ideas!! ||
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- WORM TEA - No its not for drinking!!
Worm tea is the liquid that comes from the compost. It gets diluted with water then sprinkled on plants or into any garden for a natural boost of nutrients. William will show us our worm tea bin in this film clip below!!!
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- __**Compost Bins**__
Our three compost bins teach us about recycling. The healthy compost that is produced is what we use to grow our healthy plants. We also have a range of fruit trees- feijoa, peach, apple, plum and tamarillo. __Here's Jack the reporter again!! Have a look at the clip below__ :)
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__**Early August**__ We have received our TUI challenge pack YAY!!!!



__ - Our planing, ideas, scrapbook and photos. __
__ Also meet some of our keen gardeners!! __ Have a look at our 3 video clips below. Meet our reporter Jack and a keen gardener Keela!!
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 * July/ early August**

__ - Waiau Pa School conservation group: __
__ Enters the Tui garden competition. __ The Waiau Pa school conservation Group started up in 2006. Over the years with the help of our school caretaker, parents and a donation of macrocarpa wood, we have developed an edible garden. Our garden includes 12 small plots plus a herb and strawberry garden. Our garden enables our 40 keen conservation group gardeners to grow their own vegetables and flowers.