Eco gardening and Compost Putignano

    • Here in Putignano we researched about the spontaneous plants we have in our school garden 
    • then we researched how to use them....and you will try some delicious....
    • we started our winter garden to have it ready for the group arrival before Christmas but on the 6th of January 2017..look..everything died ..under the snow...

    So...we might not have time to prepare a new one, sorry

     

     

    month

    Activities, initiatives.

    December

    Census of self sown and cultivated vegetation (labelling,photos)

    Gathering and using edible self sown plants (eg.chicory,wall rocket,etc)

    Lecture on      by experts (eg Prof.V.V.Bianco ex professor at Bari university). Discussion on “waste” and “resource”

    Gathering and preservation of seeds of self sown edible plants.

    Weeding

    Tilling the soil

    Pruning plants and bushes

    Mincing and composting of cuttings.

    Planting bulbs,tubers,rootstock of plants that bloom in spring(freesia,hyacinth,iris,anemone,crocus,daffodils,buttercup,tulip,etc)

    January

    The same

    February

    The same

    March

    Bedding out and labelling potted plants: ornamental, aromatic and officinal herbs,plants with small fruits,(eg.broom,lavender,snowball bush,sage,time,mint,oregano,calamint,azarole,sorb,medlar tree,jujube,etc.)

    April

    The same

    May

     

    June

    Census of self sown vegetation

    Gathering and using edible self sown plants

    Gathering and preservation of seeds of self sown edible plants

    Weeding

    Tilling the soil

    July

    Planned or emergency irrigation

    August

    The same

    Settember

    Tilling the soil and fertilizing with organic fertilizer

    Planting bulb s,tubers,rootstock of plants that bloom in autumn-winter (eg.cyclamen,etc)

    October

    The same

    November

     

    Making myrtle liqueur, aromatic oil (rosemary), bunches of dried lavender, sage, oregano, mint, calamint. The aim of these activities is to give hospitality to foreign students involved in exchange programmes and self-financing.Discovering tastes, smells and colours.

    Tasting medlar fruit, jujube,sorb, azarole, flans made with self-sown herbs. Aiming at self-financing.

    Sponsoring by nursery owners.

    Collaboration with the pupils’ parental association “Liceando

     

    The students at Majorana-Laterza asked the City Council for special compost containers.

    We received them and started to learn how to make a good compost from organic waste.

    One of our science teachers who is an agronomist taught the students about the right way to produce  compost.

    We are deliver organic waste in the composter.

    We asked the State forestal authority for some plants which are common in aur Mediterranean area

    We were given 100 different plants among which mirtle,broom,holly.

    All the removed grass and parts of the new branches went into the composter.

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