SLPS Kitchen Garden

A super busy week in the garden as we used some of the wet weather to get jobs done.

Tuesday we repotted some plants and sent them home for families to grow. Some of our site improvement team, Neil, Lachie, Niamh, Ava and Jade painted bird boxes with linseed oil to seal them. The bird boxes will be placed in trees in the yard to help our feathered friends.

Today was all about seeds, as we compared seed sizes and types before planting them. Hopefully we will have corn, pumpkin, beans, tomatoes and carrot seedlings to share.

Great work team.

Last year we planted a native hibiscus, which is the offical flower of National Sorry Day. It represents the strength and resilience of the Stolen Generations and symbolizes compassion, healing, remembrance, and the journey toward reconciliation. Our plant has had a bit of rough journey being trampled by our enthusiastic students.

After months of searching we found a replacement, but today when weeding and mulching the area to plant it we found our original plant had started to shoot again, showing incredible resilience and strength.

The area is also planted with bushtucker plants; Karkalla, chocolate lillies and kangaroo grass. Our chocolate lillies are blooming now, which means the tubers it produces are ready to eat.