Gardening Club - The Green Team

The Green Team are making fantastic progress!

We mix the compost with shovels, trowels and forks every week, Mandy Fuller (mum of Alex in 4P) is continuing to supply us with used ground coffee beans, vegie scraps and egg shells from The Fairmont and our plants are really starting to take off! Thank you to all the diligent Ellison people who remember to bring their egg shells into school and are placing them into the ‘Egg Shells Only’ compost bucket! Next we will get the worm farms up and running as the compost will be ready to use! Hopefully, we will get lots of ‘Liquid Gold’ fertiliser from our worms!

Group of students planting a watermelon — Image: Planting our first watermelon plant.

students watering the watermelons — Image: Making sure the plants have a good drink before planting.

Students looking for big rocks — Image: Not looking for gold, looking for big rocks!

students making a water course on the hill — Image: So many rocks to carry!

Girls showing a rock that they have found — Image: Looks like the girls have discovered gold!

students making a scarecrow — Image: Mrs Sweeney is having fun designing the scarecrow.

Students painting the face of the scarecrow — Image: We hope he has a smiley face!

group photo of the students that helped put the garden together — Image: Team work pays off!

MAY GARDENING

The magnolia tree is the prize we won for our scarecrow 'JT Ellison' (named after John Thomas Ellison who originally owned and donated the land) at the Leura Harvest Festival. Sonya from Bunnings came out and donated more plants and gloves etc.