Week 7 26-30th March

Write about your horticulture practical day on Wednesday with Jamie

• First we got newspaper and wet it, then layed it around on the ground ( covering the dirt so that no weeds can grow ) and we got wheel barrows full of white pebbles and scattered them all around the newspaper. the final result is awesome. later on we carved out names and burnt ( if you want) into small planks of wood. I had "Jai" on one side and the other side was the "DICE" logo  from Battlefield 3 ( a video game ) theres the logo to the right>> 
• The skills we used for this activity was using basic knowledge. all was quite easy and fun to do
• I learnt that putting wet newspaper down on dirt stops the weeds from coming through

Week 6 19-23rd March Bonsai trees

Who taught you? Kim

What tools did you use? Toothbrush to get unwanted stuff on braches, scissors

Where were you working? In the white tent

Were you given a tree or did you choose your own? I choose the tree that I liked the most

What kind of tree was it? To be honest I don't know the tree name but it was an awesome looking tree :)

Reflect on what you've learned:

Was it easy or challenging? It was both. At times I needed help to progress but at other times it was easy

Did you enjoy it? Yeah I thought it was quite good. E.g. getting to choose and shape your own tree etc. :)

What skills did you learn and could you use these skills in another situation? Learning to to make and maintain a bonsai tree

Did any problems come up and if so how did you solve them? Yes... I just asked the bonsai lady to help me haha :p

3) Write up the steps taken towards the development of the bonsai garden with Jamie on Wednesday.

What skills did you use? Team work, team building, planning.

Wednesday 14th march 2012

• we went to the quarry
• Gathered rocks
• cleaned the rocks
• Got the rocks and out them in the bonsai garden
• layed wet newspaper
• Layed the plastic cover down for the water
• Layed the rocks on the ground next to the plastic.
• Made the bigger rocks into stepping stones

Week 5 12-16th Monday activity

• On monday afternoon we weaved flowers from flax
• The teacher showed and taught us how to weave
• It was hard to do at first but then you got the hang of the weaving
• After we had finished weaving the flowers we were able to keep them or give them to some thing

What we have done this week at Polytech

• Shaun came and talked to us about the hydroplonics system. He also lets us try some vegetables.

• Began to make compost bins

• It was raining and cold most the week so we couldn't carry on with the bonsai garden.

• We write down five things about the hydroplonics system.

Tattoo imma get