Garden Club

 

Wow the garden was thieving during our holiday.  We harvested lettuce, radish, sliverbeet, kale, baby spinach, coriander, mint.  Our new veggie for sale this term is Native Maori Spinach.  The Te Whanau lovely teachers were the first ones offered this week to buy.  

We have started to get the garden beds ready for the spring vegetables.  We are planning to sow chilli, radish, tomatoes, cucumber, and sweet basil seeds this week.  

A big thank you to all staff for your support this week.  

Today we have been very busy transplanting native spinach in our gardens.  First we had to remove all weeds and old plants out of the planter box.  We had loosened the soil and then add compost.  Mrs Singh added some sheep pellets and the class had no idea was sheep pellets was.  When we found out nobody wanted to touch the soil.  We learnt how sheep pellets are good for the garden and helps the plants grow.  The team enjoyed transplanting native spinach.  Why grow native spinach?, as it doesn't bolt and seems to tolerate dry conditions.  Also it grows on and on and gives a wonderful supply all summer.  

"Put more soil,grab the potatoes" does this sound familiar that's right, two students from room 28 were privileged to plant Maori potatoes.  First of all we filled a potatoe planter bag with one quarter of potting mix.  We then submerged four potatoes that already sprouted into potting mix soil.  We had two bags to plant. We are now going to leave the bags in our greenhouse and wait for the leaves to sprout.

Kale Coleslaw

I guarantee you and others will, like me want to serve it this way every time.  It’s so simple and good for you. 

Take thinly sliced kale, grated carrot and grated apple (sprinkle with fresh lemon juice to stop discolouration).  Combine with finely chopped red onion and a little finely chopped parsley and mint.

Place in a bowl and pour over following dressing:

1/3 olive oil

1/3 apple cider vinegar

1/3 miso

Mix thoroughly and leave to sand for up to an hour before eating. Yum!

Today we were able to harvest bok choy, baby spinach, silverbeet, corriander, lettuce, mint and kale.  Kale and mint is popular for the teachers as they like to put it in their smoothies.  We have healthy teachers at Rosebank School.  Teachers and parents we would like to you try this Room 28 kale smoothies recipe.  

Green Kale Smoothie

Ingredients:

100ml freshly squeezed orange juice

100g kale leaves

1 banana

10 almonds

½ pineapple, chopped

2 Tbsp Greek yoghurt, heaped

Directions:

Blend for 40 seconds

Best served chilled

Please leave us a comment to let us know how your drink was.  

By Rahil & Beyonce

There was a great harvest at Rosebank Garden today. We had silverbeet and spinach for sale. Room 28 children picked fresh vegetables this morning and after morning tea it was all bagged up ready for selling to the staff. Today was Losaline and Sophie's turn to sell. 

By Djelika & Liam