Aeroview

On Tuesday this week me and the Year 7 and 8 Garden to Table Technology group from Ngatea Primary School went to Aeroview. We talked to a guy named Paul Green who is an expert in gardening. We talk a lot about compost and how for the best compost we need a combination of  kitchen compost (a mixture of some or all of the following ingredients: vegetable peels and seeds egg shells fruit peels and seeds nut shells coffee grounds any other vegetable or fruit scraps) and garden compost a mixture of some or all of the following ingredients: hay or straw wood chips grass clippings weeds and other garden waste leaves manure ashes shredded paper sawdust. We also so learn many different ways to compost there is so many like....

• Hot compost takes 18 days. First you build a compost heap, then leave it for 4 days – no turning and then turn every 2nd day for 14 days. It is really interesting because unlike a cold compost the volume  of the hot compost stays the same.

•  Cold compost  takes 6 mouths. First you build a compost heap, then leave it until it is an fine soil like dirt. It is really interesting because unlike a hot compost the volume reduces.

We also learn some stuff about sowing seeds and how it is so imported to make you do not over water the seeds or else they we get a thing that make them rot and die.The general rule for planting seeds is that they should be planted two times as deep as the seed and  plant two seeds just in case one does not grow. I made presentation to show more of a method to  sowing seeds.