Creating a beneficial garden: planting
TLF ID A002807
Planting flowers with food crops increases biodiversity, and is known as beneficial planting. Beneficial planting not only makes our garden beds look more attractive to us, it also makes gardens look more attractive to pollinators and predators, which in turn, help to fertilise and protect crops from pest invertebrates. This learning activity is the first part of a sequence of 3 individual learning activities focused on creating a beneficial garden. The order of these activities are: assessment, investigation and planting. OUTCOMES of this learning activity are for children to: undertake a planting activity; test the hypothesis that beneficial insects can be attracted by planting flowers; monitor the growth of the beneficial garden; and record the presence of beneficial insects attracted to the garden.