Addington Green Thumbs Team

Our main purpose for our Little River trip and visit was to learn how to plant natives. Caleb showed us how deep to dig the holes. How to remove the plant from its pot and loosen up any root bound roots. Then once we had planted our plant, we had to place a piece of carpet at the plant's base. The carpet square had 3 cuts to allow us to put it around the plant and to allow us to push 3 cane stakes into the ground. The last step was to put a plastic cover over the top to protect the plant from the wind, cold and to create a mini 'hot' house environment. Thank you for letting us plant some trees because I learnt about plastic shields! Callum Thank you for letting us be Change Makers - Hayley I learnt how to dig - Eliahim This was so cool! Mark Please let us come again and help. Can we camp next time? Arleana Please let us go again this year because I missed out. I was sick! Ayaan This was such an enjoyable experience for our Green Thumbs team to be part of the ...

Friday was a great day weather wise and for the Green Thumbs team. We planted 30 new natives in our native bush area. 50% of these were cabbage trees and 50% hebes. These plants were generously donated by 'Trees for Canterbury'. We are hoping to receive some more natives soon. Once the planting was over - many hands make light work - we moved to the orchard, pruned the raspberries, did another rubbish pick up and removed some major weeds. Thanks again Chris, Jenny and Daniel for your support. 

Thank you, Green Thumbs team for the amazing job you did in cleaning up the Simeon Street pathway. It is now 'slip and skid' free thanks to this remarkable group of workers! The team spent their Friday lunch time removing the mud and rotting leaves with spades and rakes. Several children had slipped over when walking along the park pathway and Levi came up with the idea to fix the problem. 

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Friday dawned a beautiful day after days and days of rain! So lovely to walk in the sun and see these gardens so green and lush. Thanks again Chris (and for your composting and the vegi garden information) and Daniel for joining us. The Green Thumbs team had a wonderful time exploring and learning about gardening. The garden is a must see and an inspiration to do better with our vegi garden at school not doubt!