Katoomba North Primary School Plants Potatoes Part II

Growth Cycles of Beans and Potatoes with North Katoomba Primary School and Blue Mountains Organic Community Gardens

What a lovely way to end the year in December 2010.  Class 2/3 have had an ongoing relationship with the Community Gardens.  On September 2010 they came down to hill their potatoes to increase productivity. The potatoes were planted in a 30 metre bed and will be ready for harvesting in February 2011.  The potatoes have grown beautifully due to the abundant rain.

The children also harvested the remainder of the broad beans that had been planted in Earth Week April 2010 taking home a large bag of beans each. It was a very successful and abundant crop watered only by the rain with no added fertilizer.  A huge bag of beans had previously been taken to the children in the classroom where the teacher tipped the beans out onto the floor.  A method was worked out by the children to count and divide the beans.  Counting the beans in groups of twenty, 343 beans were counted. They then divided the beans by how many students were in the class.  This made for a much more interesting maths lesson than usual.   A number of children had the beans for their dinner that night; some didn’t like them because they had eaten the outer shell!  The children said they can’t wait to come and harvest the potatoes.

This item was posted in February 2011.