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.