Waihopai Planting!!!!!!!

Today we went down to Waihopai River to do some planting of well.... plants. When we got there the area was full of mud. We all paired up, I went with Katie, Then we were given instructions on how to plant it and we were off!!! Katie and I worked through our plants like trojans. What you had to do was dig a small hole in the ground (we had shovels), put in the plant. wrap a special sheet round the bottom  to keep the weeds away, the sheet has four holes so you must put a bamboo stick into each hole and push it into the ground.Then you put a plastic pocket round the bamboo sheilding the plant.  One thing you should not do is put the plant in the wettest, muddiest, deepest bit of mud you can find, its not bad for the plant its bad for you and you get covered in mud, (from personal experience). It was so much fun !!!!!  We planted around 250 plants in total. I hope in a few years we will be able to come and see the plants all grown and be able to say I helped with that.

Us getting instructions on how to plant a plant.

Here is Katie and I working on one of our plants below.