Getting close to harvest

 Carrots onions and lettuce

 Wow! Look at those spuds!

 At least we have one strawberry.

 The carrots need to be thinned out.

 The beetroot are doing well.

 The pigeons got to the cabbage

 We may have pumpkins for Hallowe'en.

 The beans are flowering.

 What happened the tadpoles?

 Gooseberry jam maybe?

 Working hard!

Spring planting on April 23rd.

 Preparing drills for planting potatoes.

 Here are the spuds. Get planting!

The girls planted carrots , onions and lettuce in this bed.

Due to the building of the new classrooms the garden has been suspended for the 2011 and 2012 seasons.

First harvest June 28th

Today we harvested our first vegetables and fruit. Potatoes, cabbage, lettuce and beetroot.

Friday February 12

Spring is here and it is time to get the beds ready for planting. Today we spread one tonne of topsoil on the beds. No mean task!

Many hands make light work!













Wheeling a wheelbarrow is not as easy at it looks!

October 22nd - pumpkin harvest and weeding bonanza

Its coming up to Hallowe'en so we decided to harvest our pumpkins. Here is a photo of our crop. A bit small but at least they're the right shape! Not bad for a first attempt. Next year we'll try planting them in a manure rich soil and hopefully we'll have HUGE pumpkins.





After a great burst of work by all the class we managed to take up all the weeds. We are ready now to top up our beds with topsoil and dig in some manure to get ready for Spring.

In the right hand corner you can see our soft fruit bushes. These are blackcurrant, redcurrant, raspberry and strawberries, these are the only plants we are keeping over the years (perennial).

The pumpkin problem!

The top picture is a pumpkin grown in the school garden. The bottom one is a plant taken home by one of our students and planted at home (around the same time as we planted ours at school). These photos were taken in October within a week of each other! Looks like we need more manure in our school garden to feed the pumpkins!