The carrots weeded the kakariki garden and pulled out the mint discussing how invasive it was. Invasive means it will invade everywhere and that is definitely what happens with mint roots. Mrs Mardell said sometimes gardening needs all the strength you've got and the boys took to the task of ripping out all the mint roots.
The girls composted all the waste putting the roots in the black bag to rot. We mixed green matter with brown matter as we went.
The beans organised and weeded the planters tidying up the planter boxes under the fig tree we worked as a team dragging them into place and once again worked to mix brown and green matter and make compost.
We found lots of insects under the bins such as slaters, earwigs, worms and 2 ant colonies. This was most interesting. Seb stepped on it and the ants got it his shoes, he hopped around and mrs Mardell joked they now Seb knows what people mean when someone says, "have you got ants in your pants?"
Both groups recognised that certain materials they found in the soil where exactly as they always had been, except a bit dirty. They don't decompose or as Sebastian said "break down".
Ted found a smiggles sticker that was buried in the soil.
Tommy found a piece of red plastic.
We also found a piece of glass. Glass can be recycled and melted down at high heats, but some plastic can't.
As an experiment the beans have put some plastic labels in the compost to see what will happen
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