First harvest of Plantains

First harvest of Plantains

by | Feb 26, 2019 | It's Edible!, Uncategorized

This week, we introduced a few new plants to our Lower Gardens.They were brought from the East Campus. We started with a quiz to see if we could identify any of the species. What we’ve got included some little cucumber plants, a small lemongrass plant, and a tomato plant — we were especially excited to have it in the garden. The most interesting one was a small plant which produces tasty mini-melons called cucamelons!!

Same as last week, we split into two teams. One went to the upper garden and focused on weeding, and the other stayed in the lower garden.

In the lower garden,  the beans were growing really well, but there weren’t enough sticks for them to climb onto. Therefore, some of us used bamboo sticks to create more space for them. Others planted the “newcomers” into our garden, but some of them were too small to be grown in the beds, so we kept them in the pots.

As new plants were introduced, there were not enough beds. We looked around and found that a part of the garden seemed to have plants that we don’t really know what they are so we will try to figure it out if it can be used to grow new plants.

We also harvested some of the plantains from one of the trees. It tastes very sweet after a few days but was not so nice when we had just cut them off the trees, because they were not yet ripe even though they had cracked already. At first we thought they were bananas – they looked quite different from the usual long, curved ones in the supermarkets. Instead,they were much shorter and bigger in diameter, and they are plantains.

We did some really good stuff this week and can’t wait to find out about the beans, the newly planted “travellers” and the mysterious pots at the end of our garden. If you know about the plants growing there, please tell us by leaving a comment on our website.

If you want to learn more about our gardens and what we grow, please feel free to take a look at this short video — A tour around our gardens — filmed by some of the students from Season 1 and 2 Wednesday group, or continue to explore our website.

Last but not least, right below the quotes, at the bottom of the page, there is an Edible Joke section that you can take a look at.

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Soursop tree, Irrigation system & Tumeric

Soursop tree, Irrigation system & Tumeric

by | Feb 18, 2019 | Garden Updates, Uncategorized

During the second week of Incredible Edibles, the Wednesday team divided up into several different groups.

Group 1 were busy planting and weeding in the upper Garden. The quality of soil in some of the beds is pretty poor so we will try to address that next time. But we tried to break up the soil with the spades this week. We had a bit of a panic as we worried that we were weeding our own Ladyfinger seedlings, but we checked and it was ok!

Henry replanted the Tumeric in the upper garden, adding mulch (organic matter from our own UWCSEA compost bins) and a sign so we knew what was in that patch of garden.

Another group checked the irrigation system and did some watering and weeding in the lower garden. They also checked that the signage matched what was planted there.

Christian and Mia planted a Soursop tree to add to the other fruits in our lower garden – which is developing into a fruit tree zone with limes, pineapples, papaya and banans already flourishing there.

The final group focused on building and testing a hydroponic farming device gifted to our very own Mr Sparks. This week was fun and everyone at Incredible Edibles is looking forward to next week.