Seedling trays and labels

With ingenuity we were able to remove most of the plant tags we made from their moulds, some more easily than others. It was then onto sanding with most of the kids unfamiliar with sandpaper.

I think the sanding sent them all a little loopy (or so it looks in this photo) but they loved the flexibility it gave them in smoothing out their tags.

We then moved onto planting our seeds. By planting them at the beginning of the term, they should be a decent size in 9 weeks time. Initially we are putting them into small trays while we prepare the planters over the next few weeks. By then they should be ready to transplant. Just in case we forget what we put where on our trays, the kids all made little labels and for those who couldn't spell, they drew pictures of their vegetables.

The fun part was finding all sorts of things we could use for our seedling trays and deciding whether they would need drainage holes or not. We utilised everything from egg and choc milk cartons through to milk bottles cut in half lengthways and small boxes with one side cut out of them.

Can't wait to see their faces next week when they see that some of their seeds have started to peek through the soil. Stay tuned...