Unveiling student photography at Adelaide Botanic Garden
11 July 2024
A group of extremely talented photography students from Brighton Secondary School recently visited Adelaide Botanic Garden tasked with capturing a series of photographs.
Date posted: 15 November 2019
The weather is really starting to heat up as we get closer to Christmas and the end of the school year.
In the Little Sprouts Kitchen Garden, we've had some real success with our carrots. With the burst of warm weather, they're really on top of each other.
When growing carrots, there is always the consideration of whether or not to thin them out when they start growing. This year, we made the decision to leave them and not thin them, and it was worth it. They make a great show! The children will have the opportunity to harvest all shapes and colours because we mixed up the placement of the sizes and colours when planting.
If you have a clay type soil that gets hard in summer and water logged in winter, why not try adding gypsum to the soil. You'll need to dig into your soil about 5-10cm and you will have to add quite a lot of gypsum, but it will make a real difference to the structure of your soil.
Watering with all the different plants in the Kitchen Garden is very important now. Pots that are in the sun will start to dry out much quicker and need constant attention. Sunflowers and Sweet Corn use a lot of water but this can be done with a watering can!
If you're lucky enough to have your very own worm farm, now is the time to consider bringing them inside so they stay below 30°C. And as exciting as the Christmas period is, don't forget about your plants over your holidays. Make sure you organise somebody to water them if you're going away and shift them to the shade on those extreme heat days.
11 July 2024
A group of extremely talented photography students from Brighton Secondary School recently visited Adelaide Botanic Garden tasked with capturing a series of photographs.
15 March 2024
The Board of the Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium is very pleased to announce that the Director of the Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium of South Australia, Mr Michael Harvey, has been elected as the new Chair of the Council of Heads of Australian Botanic Gardens.