We've had a great start to the year at garden club. The sunflowers and tomatoes that we planted in term four last year provided us with a plentiful harvest. The sunflowers had put on a beautiful display and once finished we harvested the heads, bagged them in brown paper bags and hung them with string to dry so we can save the seeds later this term.
The tomatoes provided a huge harvest and over the first few weeks of term the kids have collected ripe red and yellow tomatoes to take home. As one of our keen young members said "on Mondays we harvest food to take home for dinner!". It's been great to see some of the classes coming out to the garden to have a look and also good to know the staff have been enjoying fresh tomatoes with their lunch.
This patch of garden has now been cleared to rest ready to be resown soon with winter vegetables.
Next week we are making suet bird feeders and sowing seeds into trays ready for planting into the garden later in Autumn.
Victoria, Dee and Gail
The tomatoes provided a huge harvest and over the first few weeks of term the kids have collected ripe red and yellow tomatoes to take home. As one of our keen young members said "on Mondays we harvest food to take home for dinner!". It's been great to see some of the classes coming out to the garden to have a look and also good to know the staff have been enjoying fresh tomatoes with their lunch.
This patch of garden has now been cleared to rest ready to be resown soon with winter vegetables.
Next week we are making suet bird feeders and sowing seeds into trays ready for planting into the garden later in Autumn.
Victoria, Dee and Gail