Checking on 5 cypresses planted at Fontana gardens. Grown by 30cm since planted. Doing well. 👍👍
Well done Loretta and Thomas Mizzi at Fontana Local Council
Siġar team celebrating end of first season of tree planting.
7 events. 23 trees.
Focus on summer watering. 💧💧💧💧
Well done.
👍 👍👍👍
EkoSkola Malta pupils from Gozo College Ġużé Aquilina Primary & Special Unit Sannat watering fig trees we have planted together.
Well done kids 👍
As we get into summer. No more planting.
It’s all about watering trees planted. Water water water. 20l per week per tree. 💧💧💧
3 olives trees planted in Zebbug Gozo with primary school kids and local council team.
Local council will upgrade irrigation system and our volunteers will assist with watering.
End of first planting season for the volunteers.
Season 1: 23 trees planted.
Thumbs up!
And big thank you to volunteers, sponsors and Ministry for Gozo and planning for support.
Baskal Saliba
Gozo College Mons. Giovanni Andrea Vella Żebbuġ Primary School
The Alfred Mizzi Foundation
Gozo Regional Development Authority
Baskal Saliba
Żebbuġ Gozo Local Council
Siġar is pleased to announce that The Alfred Mizzi Foundation will support our future tree planting projects in Gozo.
Today in Zebbug, the foundation will fund irrigation tools. 👍
The Alfred Mizzi Foundation
Exciting times.
On Wednesday we will test a new tool system for the olive trees we will plant in Zebbug.
First time used in Gozo. So we hope to learn about this system for future projects.
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Job done with EkoSkola Malta group of Gozo College Ġużé Aquilina Primary & Special Unit Sannat
Pupils volunteers and teachers getting together to plant 2 fig trees.
Well done kids. Thumbs up.
PS. School will install irrigation system to water them adequately throughout the year. Until it’s in place, the pupils will water these trees weekly.
Joseph Bonello
Stefan Wessels
Keith Woodcock
Danny Scanlon
Brenda Shanahan
3 holes dug at zebbug gardens. Damn hard to dig into old palm tree 🌴 roots system. So cheated a big and dug next to it.
Ready for planting 🫒 olive trees on 7th May with Baskal Saliba
Stephane Julien CroceWoodcock
Maurice Stirling
Stephane Julien Croce
Stefan Wessels
Plaque ready for Monday. 2 fig trees at Gozo College Ġużé Aquilina Primary & Special Unit Sannat with EkoSkola Malta groups and volunteers.
Looking forward!
Giving a hand to Gozo College Dun Salv Vella Nadur Primary EkoSkola Malta group during the school holidays.
Watered the trees we planted. Nice new leaves coming out so Carob Elm Judas trees are in good shape.
Watered 9 trees. 20/30 litres each.
Keith Woodcock
Stephane Julien Croce
Sandarac Gum tree, Judas tree and cypresses being watered by EkoSkola Malta group at Gozo College Agius De Soldanis Middle School
Good work!
Ramona Mercieca. Photos credit.
The three Pistacia lentiscus (Deru) planted in Qala late last year, are all doing well.
Weekly watering of these indigenous plants is carried out by a Sigar volunteer ‘tree champion’ 🙂
If you’d like to help out as a volunteer, or learn more about our projects and ways to support our plans, please get in touch, or check out our NEW website sigargozo.org/
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Pleased to see that the Judas tree planted at Gozo College Agius De Soldanis Middle School is doing well. New leaves and looking healthy. EkoSkola Malta group at school looking after it well. Well done.
Photo credit Ramona Mercieca
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Water. The stuff of life. Kids watering trees they have planted as weather gets dry. Well done. Great follow up by ekoskola group at Nadur school. Gozo College Dun Salv Vella Nadur Primary EkoSkola Malta
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Great day Gozo College Ġużé Aquilina Primary & Special Unit Sannat with EkoSkola Malta group.
2 holes 60cm ready now to plant 2 fig trees.
Next steps. 28/4. The fun part. Planting.
Well done to all the students, staff and Sigar volunteers, Maurice, Simon, Brenda and Stephane Julien Croce
Trees kindly supplied by Ministry for Gozo and Planning.