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Weed-powered digging machines

November 27, 2014 By Hannah Zwartz Leave a Comment

Weed-powered digging machines

This week’s School Garden picture comes from Diane Turner at Raumati South School: Chicken Little the digging machine, on a day trip to Raumati South school. Chickens are ideal for preparing beds as they eat weeds (including oxalis), aerate the soil with their forklike feet, hunt our slugs and snails that like to hide between…

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Hannah Zwartz has been a professional gardener since 1990 as well as a garden writer, designer and educator. Passionate about school gardening, addicted to vegetables and a compost connoisseur, Hannah is an avant- gardener.

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