Childrens garden

Some of you might know, I work within a child care centre, I run a gardening program and look after the veggie boxes and do some general gardening.
We have been harvesting, tomatoes, zucchinis and recently beans and capsicums.
Even though the children and I have treated the plants with milk and water spray we have powdery mildew on our zucchinis. I feel it is time to pull them out, re condition the soil and plant for winter.
I gain so much from teaching children, where their food comes from and the basics of gardening. They enjoy being outside and are always full of questions and are constantly asking, if they can come out and garden with me. I believe a kitchen garden should be in every school, kindergarten and child care center.
Here are some pictures of my work, whats happening in your garden?

A jungle of climbing beans and zucchini

Before I went on a summer break for three weeks, I thought I had built a substantial teepee for my climbing beans.
When I came back the beans had overgrown so much so, the teepee had collapsed under the weight. In hindsight, I should have done a activity with the children to build a sturdier structure for the beans to grow. How are you beans going?

I also at a first time grower of zucchini. I had under estimated how long the vine would grow, both in my garden at work and at home, the leafs are very large and the vine is spilling over the sides of the beds. They have also attached themselves to the fence, with a little help of the grapevine. We picked a few zucchinis already, which the children have loved, I have had to reinforce that as beautiful as the yellow flowers are we have to leave so the zucchini can grow, I love showing them the process, after all it's all their hard work of helping me maintain the garden. Some of my tomato plants have split due to the stakes not being tall enough, I have just bought new taller stakes, but it has been a struggle, they are a tangled mess. I have lots of fruit on them although they fruited late, they are yet to go red. I do have a variety I bought from Diggers, I think they were called tigerlilly, they ripened and tasted great, we are waiting with anticipation for the other plants

The children and I have built larger teepee's and I am now going to dedicate a whole bed to vegetables of the climbing kind, with the help of a parent we are going to put poly pipe across the bed as a climbing structure. I have posted some pictures of the beds at the moment and I will post some more soon. How is your summer garden going? Has it survived this heat?

some beautiful things

I just wanted to share some pictures of my work, I feel very lucky.