On Friday 4 children from our class got to go to the Botanical Gardens to help build the Children's garden. That was us!
We got cotton fabric and used rubber bands to makes shapes and then put them in natural dye. This is called tie-dying. We used beetroot, tumeric and spinach as our natural dyes. The spinach did not turn out very green. We also learnt about other fruits that you could also use to stain fabric like plums.
We all helped make a banner for the garden using flags.
With spades and forks we turned the ground over to expose the soil and then put fertilizer on it. Using mallets we banged sticks into the ground to section it in half. In total we made 4 gardens. One group made an arch way out of bamboo and string. To make the fence we weaved flax through the sticks.
We planted lavender, sweet peas, beans, butter beans and calendula. We had grown some of these plants from seed before in Room 10 and in Gardening Club.
There is still a lot of work to be done and this includes fundraising. They have to raise 1.4 million dollars to open the garden. We hope that we can continue to plant more plants and spend time in our garden. We are going to invite the rest of our classmates to come join us.
By Fin, Oliver, Claudia and Guy
