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.