Christmas Leaves

Pupils harvested the Russian Kale , Chard and Lettuce to sell at the Christmas  gift sale. The stall sold out in 30 minutes.

Golden Beetroot

Today there was a lot to harvest. Blackberries,  raspberries,  cabbage, courgettes,  tomatoes but best of all were the golden beetroots.

Is a caterpillar ticklish?

Today everyone worked very hard weeding, watering and harvesting cabbages. The snails and caterpillars fascinated everyone and the fact that they eat our vegetables was forgotten for a moment.

Terrific Tuesday

Well today eleven children and three adults came to work in the garden. Lots of jobs got done and everyone went away with something to cook or eat.

Mums in the compost

Thursday was an inspiring day in the garden. I was expecting one or two children but ten children and their parents came. The compost was turned, the beds were weeded and tidied, seeds were planted. It poured with rain just after we had finished.

Full of promise

The planting plan is done, the seeds are planted everything is ready. Now we have to take good care of all our plants.

Leeks and much more

The garden is a hive of activity. We are putting down bark chips, looking after our trees as well as growing our seedlings in the greenhouse. Lend lease are building us a polytunnel as well as some seating.

Repotting tomatoes

Today we repotted tomato seedlings. We had to be careful with the seedlings so when we were taking them out we didn't snap them.It was very challenging to take the seedlings out of their pots and to put them in another pot. We had to dig in deep soil with our hands and have to deal with the soil going underneath our finger nails.

Maths, Mulching and Harvesting

Today we were working out how many raspberry plants we needed to buy for our new soft fruit bed. Another team were mulching around the trees while another group harvested lettuce and carrots to be used by Silver Birch class in their lesson.

Good work means good plants

We work very well for the school. But we also have fun,we are hoping to win another award beacause we look after everything very well. 

Doing the garden is hard work

All of the classes have work so hard in the garden to make it a better place even though all of the plants are gone does not  mean our spirit is gone for our gardening.We will just keep and gardening un tillwe stop because that is the gardening spirit! Jp

 

Working in the garden

Pupils from Year 6 have been working very hard to make the garden a better place. It has been very exhausting doing this but we haven't given up. We have leaf mulch from last year, worm castings from our wormy, we also have compost made from decomposed fruit peelings and shredded up paper from our school. This is the first blog post written by children from our school. We have now taken over!

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Compost Heaven

Today we removed the compost from the container in the school garden. It was amazing to see the rich soil that has been produced from our fruit skins, shredded paper, and dead plants.

Recording the weight

Weighing all the squash and pumpkins took a few days. After it was done a list was made of what will be cooked and how much will be sold. There have been several parents asking about them.

Elephant Garlic

Training Commences

Class 6 are working hard to ensure the last of our tomatoes ripen. Five lucky pupils had a pruning lesson and can now do summer pruning.

Lovely lettuce

The holiday sun has made everything grow really well.We have taken the opportunity to plant more vegetables; carrots, celeriac and leeks. The lettuce have really grown well.

The garden is surprising

We had a busy afternoon in the garden with some regulars but some new Gardeners visited. We planted seeds, weeded, cleared the tomato plants to reveal a store of hidden treasure. We swapped recipes for courgettes including courgette pancakes. We have enough for half a cookery book already.

Secret Gardeners take over the garden

Today we had our first summer gardening session. In two hours weeds were cleared from around trees, the compost bins were redesigned, beetroot and beans were planted for the autumn. We discussed recipes and chose produce to test them out. Looking forward to the next one.

Harvest time

There is so much to harvest in the garden we didn't know where to start. One team picked spinach another garlic others courgettes and mange tout. We are selling some of it today.