School gardening

School gardening, originally uploaded by benlouelt.

Aren't they great! My little workers. Despite the threatening weather on Friday, We managed to get together a group of seven super keen kids to replant the garden bed outside their classroom. I had gone in earlier in the week and turned the soil over, so the harder work was done, leaving them the fun task of planting.
It was a drought tolerant selection of plants: bearded irises, grasses and a few hardy natives. Although we had had good rainfall during the week, the bed was dusty dry, as it is is sheltered by the above eaves.
After watering them all thoroughly, we covered the bed with our free mulch from the local council and we were done.
We have (slightly belated) plans to add an automatic watering system to help it all along, but in the interim, I think the kids will happily keep it going with an occasional hand watering.