Have you been to Botanic Gardens?

Plan:

Edible garden - Fruits - Vegetables -

Workshop - Planting - Making an organic spray - Friends and Foes -

Forest - Native trees -

Brainstorm:

Fruits

Vegetables

Worm farm

Writing

On Tuesday the 13th of May, we were provided with an opportunity to visit the Botanic Gardens in Auckland for the first time. Auckland’s weather was perfect for our adventure, which began with an opportunity to explore an area that had native trees, gardens and lakes.   

At the Edible Garden, there were fruit and vegetables. Some of the fruit that was there were apples, guavas, bananas, strawberries and feijoas. Some of the vegetable included leeks, onions, beetroot, silverbeet and many more. These eatable fruits and vegetables made me think about 5 + a day.

There were also bees polluting flowers and ants were roaming on the ground and the caterpillars were munching their way on leaves in the Edible garden. At the back of the garden was a worm farm with a lot of worms and a lot of compost. There was about 10 or 20 worms visible in the worm farm.

Surprisingly there was something weird next to the fruit and vegetable plants. I was shocked to see flowers growing right along side next to the vegetables. This is known as companion planting. The flowers were there to help attract pollinators like wasps, butterflies, ladybugs and other insects. They help the plants because the Ladybug eats aphids and Wasps eats annoying Caterpillars that damage leaves of vegetables. Companion planting helps to reduce the amount of damage these pests can cause.   

WALHT write an information writing about Botanic Gardens.