Home Grown Eat Fresh Family Garden Challenge
This year our Garden Warriors have launched a "Home Grown Eat Fresh" Family Garden Challenge to their School Community. For $5 each registered Family receives a "Garden Start UP Pack" of seedlings that includes the following:
- 2 flat leaf parsley seedlings
- 2 chive seedlings
- 1 yellow cocktail tomato
- 1 celery seedling
- 1 zucchini seedling
- 4 rainbow silver beet
- 4 different lettuce seedlings
This should provide herbs for flavouring summer salads and frittatas. More than enough zucchini to grate into afore mentioned frittatas and hide in moist chocolate cakes. Silver beet will be able to find its way into curries, feta filo pies, and lasagnes, while the assorted lettuces will make wonderful "imagination salads" for several weeks!
Our lovely Garden Gnomes were very busy yesterday afternoon bundling up all these wonderful Awapuni Nursery seedlings ready to go out to our Garden Challenge Families'.
Unfortunately we couldn't get our own seed sowing efforts to grow quite big enough to have ready to go out ready for the school Holidays...so it was a last minute order from Henri and his Team at Awapuni Nurseries!
Some of our Tui prize winnings got mixed up and bagged up with instructions ready to go out with the seedling start up packs...
Fourteen "Garden Start up" packs ready to be delivered, complete with fertilisers & instruction sheet!
That's a take up of our Garden Challenge by almost 10% of our school Families...can't wait until judging time at the end of next month to see how they grow!
Our School Garden Gomes (parent helpers), were also busy this week organising our Garden Warrior Stand for Wednesday nights "Northern Lights," end of term Show case. We sold a few more raffle tickets, and took a few more Garden Challenge registrations.
There was no shortage of willing helpers to circulate our pesto and dip... nibbles platter.
Ali once again volunteered his services at front of house, after thorough quality control was first undertaken!
This time we also handed out pesto and dip recipe cards in response to overwhelming feed back last term!
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