Good evening all. As the heavens decided to well and truly open after school, our gardening club took the opportunity to enjoy some garden inspired art. Sycamore seed dragonflies were on the menu and making them was a thoroughly enjoyable way to spend our time in the dry and warm.
This evening in the cold and drizzle, the dedicated garden gang were hard at work relocating more of the bark chippings. We also wrapped the tree ferns in the ‘Jurassic Garden’ to protect them from the frost. We’ve surrounded the growing tips in barley straw, held in place with netting and repurposed dog feed bags read more »
Good evening all. This week we started to dig up an area of bark chippings that surround some of the beds. We are moving the chippings to the woodland walk to refresh the path. The plan is to remove the weed webbing and the planting beds, rake it over and sow a mix of sedges, wild flowers read more »
Hi Holy Trinity, I didn’t manage to blog last week so here is what we got up to on Tuesday night in our after school club. The children were split into pairs and each was given a vegetable bed to dig over and weed. They all put in a great shift.
Tonight saw the first meeting of the ‘Garden Gang’ in the second half of the Autumn term. The children worked hard for their hour raking the huge volume of leaves that have fallen and planting willow cuttings. We took cuttings from the healthy side of the willow classroom and planted them at the base of read more »
This year the ‘Garden Gang’ is being led by Mr Hutchinson and Miss Gomm. The 16 enthusiastic year 4 children put in an hour’s hard work each week and are having a great time. So far this year we have: Cleared the beds and weeded between them Pruned the kiwi and grape vines Made bird read more »
