Gardening Club
This blog records our progress with building and looking after the School Garden.
Most entries are uploaded by the pupils themselves.
The photos show us all hard at work - but it's great fun and we're learning a lot about nature!
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Can't believe it is our last day! It has been such a busy year! Today we were able to harvest some radishes and we continued weeding and clearing. We made some stakes to support our peas and cleared ... (Read more)
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Look at our beautiful roses growing in the wild flower garden! Meanwhile, up in the vegetable garden, we found that our potatoes, peas, radishes, onions, lettuce and blueberries had all spouted immensely ... (Read more)
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We did loads today! We had stations of tasks and rotated between pot patrol, measuring for weed surpressant, watering the potatoes, onions, carrots and peas, planting basil, chives, radish, parsley ... (Read more)
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This week we managed to fill the water butt using three hoses joined together! This means our onions and potatoes had a really good drink on this warm Monday afternoon. We also transplanted a blueberry ... (Read more)
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What a scorcher of a day! The bluebells are blooming beautifully and a few pea shoots are peeking through. We cleared an area for fruit trees - phew, that was hard work! Like the plants we are ... (Read more)
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We split into groups so that we could get all of the jobs that we had planned completed! One group were watering all of the beds and the pots in the Greenhouse while another group were on Pot Patrol ... (Read more)
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A big welcome to Shannon our new member and also to our special visitor from Urban Roots called Francesca.
Francesca taught us about different types of tools that we will be using in the garden. ... (Read more)
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This week, we planted some herbs including basil and parsley. We also began clearing Rhubarb Range and Bluebell Corner. Some of us continued to clear the path to the garden and others were watering vegetables ... (Read more)
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This week we welcome Mrs Porter to our gardening club. She joined in all the clearing and weeding to be done. We planted broad beans, leek and peppers and they are in our greenhouse to propogate. We ... (Read more)
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Welcome to our new members.
Planting vegetables started today in the sunshine.
It's great to be gardening again.
Photographer Ryan Drummond ... (Read more)
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