The Garden

Find out here what we are doing in the garden at school

January

• We have covered our vegetable plots with black plastic to warm the soil.
• We have started collecting bottles for the Greenhouse.

February

• The potatoes are in egg boxes on the window sill chitting.
• We are planting our sunflower seeds early so that they can get strong in the greenhouse before going in the ground. We recycled newspaper to make the flower pots.

March

• The second onion sets have been planted
• Here we are putting tomato and courgette seeds in pots ready for the greenhouse.
• The potato competition has started - who will grow the most?
• We have pruned our willow for a new igloo.

• We have planted up the Woodland Trust hedgerow trees which we arrived last week - Dogwood, Hazel, Hawthorn, Dogrose and Holly trees.
• We have been weeding the plots in the garden ready for our produce after the Easter Holidays
• The seedlings have gone into the new greenhouse for a few weeks until the frost has past.

April

• We have chosen courgettes, lettuce, potatoes, pumpkins, rocket and basil to plants as seeds.
  
• We have been tidying the garden and spreading bark to stop the weeds on the footpaths.
• Key Stage Two's potatoes have all been earthed up to encourage a good crop.

• We have been watering the trees and hedgerows regularly to give them the best chance of growing.
• We have created a new plot for the courgettes and another for the salad leaves.
• The greenhouse plants are being protected from slugs and watered regularly.

May

• The seedlings have grown in the warmth of the greenhouse and are ready to plant out.
• The courgette plants are in their own bed.
• We have planted out nasturtiums to encourage the pollinators (and slugs away from the crops!)

June

• There has been a lot of watering because of the lovely warm weather.
• All the weeds are enjoying the sun too so we have to pull them up.
• We have planted out our tomato plants - some in the greenhouse and some in out in the fruit plot.
•  The pumpkins have been planted out to give them a head start.

July

• We have been tidying up the garden so that we could fit the cob oven in.
  
• We have been watering, watering, watering!
• The potatoes have been dug up and eaten.

September

• The pumpkins continue to be fed
• We have picked the apples, pears and tomatoes
• The trees are watered and barked

October

• We have been eating! Blackberry and apple crumble, pizza and pumpkin soup.
• The Pumpkins were raffled and apples bobbed.
  
• The beds are cleared feed with compost and covered for the winter.

November

• We have been raking up the leaves in the grounds to make leaf mulch.
  
• Onion sets are planted alongside the garlic ready for next year.
• Daffodil bulbs are being planted around the school and we even helped plant them in the local park.
• Feeding the birds - a lot!