Date posted: 31 March 2016
Aand the Little Sprouts Kitchen Garden Visiting Program is off and racing for 2016, with the first session taking place on 15 March with some little legends from Modbury Kindergarten!
One of the highlights from classes so far has been the opportunity to harvest watermelons from the garden to make watermelon and mint smoothies (YUM). This has been so popular with the kids that many have remarked they’d be bugging mum and dad to start making them at home!
Term 1’s program has also included kids planting peas and snow peas in biodegradable pots to take back and add to their school or kindergarten’s kitchen garden. Kids have also been harvesting plants from the kitchen garden, including capsicum, chilli, eggplants and herbs, to take back to their school or kindergarten, where they’ve been using the produce to prepare healthy (and delicious) recipes.
Ladybirds are appearing in the Garden in huge numbers – a very welcome sight! Ladybirds feed on soft-bodied insects so they serve as beneficial predators of plant pests such as scale insects, white flies, mites and aphids.
Ladybird larvae (what the ladybirds look like just after they hatch their eggs, pictured) can eat pests by the hundreds. A hungry ladybird can devour 50 aphids per day! Keep an eye out for a future video featuring more of the curious critters found in the Little Sprouts Kitchen Garden. Until next time!
03 September 2021
Following the devastating 2020 bushfires on Kangaroo Island, scientists at the SA Seed Conservation Centre have visited the island a number of times to investigate what botanical treasures have regrown, and to collect seeds and plant specimens with a conservation aim.
17 August 2021
Repatriation of a rare pea from the UK Seed Bank for bushfire recovery in the Adelaide Hills.
