Narooma Community Garden The community garden in the
school
Slide 2
Wonderful opportunity The Narooma Public School invited Narooma
District Community Gardens Inc. to establish a community garden in
the primary school grounds in exchange for involving the students
in some activities.
Slide 3
Amazing site The site is north facing and gets good winter sun.
It may need a windbreak to protect plants from the salty, north
easterly sea breezes.
Slide 4
Locating the enclosed garden We chose the flat part of the site
for the main garden and this will be enclosed in a polypipe and
wire structure to keep out birds, possums and footballs from the
adjacent oval.
Slide 5
Building raised beds In the enclosure there will be 4 raised
beds for annual vegetables, some ground level beds and fruit
trees/shrubs that need protection.
Slide 6
Crop rotation The 4 beds will be used to demonstrate a crop
rotation system to members and students. Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4
Bed 1 (NW) Fruiting vegetables Root crops & alliums LegumesLeaf
crops & brassicas Bed 2 (NE) Leaf crops & brassicas
Fruiting vegetables Root crops & alliums Legumes Bed 3 (SE)
LegumesLeaf crops & brassicas Fruiting vegetables Root crops
& alliums Bed 4 (SW) Root crops & alliums LegumesLeaf crops
& brassicas Fruiting vegetables
Slide 7
More fruit trees Well care for the existing fruit trees such as
the fig and the peach tree and plant more within the school
grounds, eg dwarf fruit trees that students can manage
