Monster Market Madness

 Finally it was the week of the School Monster Market & Gala!

 

The sun gave us a timely reminder that it was now the season for hats and sunscreen (please Garden Warriors don't forget your hats & drink bottles on Wednesday afternoons)

 

Garden Warriors settled into making items to sell at their Garden Warrior stall.

 Bright & colourful "bubble wands" were very popular, a huge thanks to Mr Allwiredup for organising the copper wire and the Ladies at our Salvation Army for the buttons and old necklaces that supplimented the $2 shop beads.

 Copper wire handles got installed on our jar lanterns

 Funny faces were added to our "lettuce head pets"

 ...and MUCH concentration was required for constructing the driftwood Christmas trees!

 ...all that concentration and sizing paid off Garden Warriors as these trees look stunning!

 All this beautiful sunshine meant we needed to have an ice cream to finish off our afternoon of hard work!

 Finally our Garden Warriors got to devour their ice cream they had made!
Exactly what we all needed after a hot afternoon in the garden, we will definitely make ice cream again, maybe mint & pea, strawberry & rhubarb ripple?

 Our Garden Warrior Stall was a HUGE success at the Gala. A BIG thank you to the Westport News for raising our profile these last few weeks, it was very noticeable how many keen gardeners had read about us and come down especially to have a look at our Garden. Our Garden Visitor's book was FULL of wonderful comments & encouragement!

 Bottle Garden Lettuce could barely keep up with demand, with stocks constantly replenished!

Rhubarb, lettuce seedlings, silver beet bundles, sweet peas, herbs, ginger beer, and bubble wands proved extremely popular. WE now know we need more fresh $1 produce, also more mixed salad greens, and to start our coriander and basil off earlier in a green house. A plan also needs to be hatched for another 2 boxes of HUGE avocados fresh from Katikati in the North Island...these sold out fast!

 Garden Warrior Bubble wands were carefully chosen and put to use straight away...

We may have to start a blog for 101 uses for cable drums. This cable drum with bubble mixture inserts kept everyone coming back to the Garden Warrior stall!

THANK YOU everyone for supporting our stall, and a HUGE special thanks to Rhys' mum for all her help on the day, it was busy!