Garden Bed Restoration Project

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Date:

📋 Part 1: Planning & Safety

1. What is the main aim of your team's garden bed restoration? (choose one)

Restore soil health and grow food for the school/community

Make the bed look decorative only

Replace the garden box structure without planting

2. Check all safety items and tools your team will bring:

Gardening gloves

Goggles / eye protection

Sunscreen and a hat

Power saw without training

Shovel and spade

First aid kit

3. List the three types of plants your team will plant and give one reason for choosing each (e.g., bee-friendly, edible, nitrogen-fixer):

4. Compost budget: Compost costs $50 per m³. If you add 5 cm (0.05 m) of compost across a bed measuring 2.4 m by 1.2 m, calculate the compost volume in m³ and the cost in $.

🔬 Part 2: Measurements, Monitoring & Plan

5. Measure and record your garden bed's internal dimensions. Write measurements in metres and centimetres.

6. Using the dimensions you recorded above, calculate the bed volume in cubic metres (m³) and in litres (L). (Hint: 1 m³ = 1000 L)

7. How will your team monitor soil moisture and temperature? Include how often you will check, what equipment you will use, and the target conditions (e.g., 15–20 °C soil temp for seedlings).

8. Experimental idea: Propose one simple test your team could run (state a short hypothesis, the method, and what you will measure). Example: testing two mulches to see which keeps soil moister over 2 weeks.

9. Sketch a top-down plan of your bed showing plant groups, paths for access, water source and where compost/mulch will go. Label north if known.