Wednesday 9 November 2016

Spring term 4

Room 3
Harvesting and eating Broad beans !

Room 7 and Room 14
sowing tomato seeds 

Hot day our plants are very thirsty !

A rainy day - Room 1 learning about the the parts of a plant 


Room 6
Planting by the Office


Spring Term 3

Room 15
Room 3
Room 1

Thursday 11 August 2016

Winter gardening around the school

Bringing colour to the gardens in the cooler months !
Here we planted some Polyanthus ! We found a sunny position for the flowers in the R9 garden !
Preparing the soil for our next crop 
Room 7 busy weeding and tyding up around the fish pond garden 
Great job gardeners !
Our organic vegetable garden in the winter sun and the watering system on after a week with no rain !

Monday 1 August 2016

Green manure crop


A natural way to improve soil 
Green crop helps discourage the spread of weeds
The children here are cutting the crops just before flowering , we will leave the cut plants in the soil to improve the quality of our soil for the spring season.

Tuesday 10 May 2016

Room 2 planting a new garden !

Removing some soil and adding compost 


We planted flowers called pansies and a herb plant called thyme.
We painted pebbles to decorate our garden ! 


Wednesday 6 April 2016

Monday 14 March 2016

Summer 2016 at the organic garden !

Potatoes are ready ! 
Harvesting some of our potatoes


Planting out new flowers : To attract butterflies, bees and other insects!


Pea straw: We mulch our garden beds to keep moisture in and it helps keep weeds from growing

Room 15

Room 2 - They would like to develop this little space near their classroom - Watch this space ! 

our lettuces are growing well, we mulch the soil ( "blanket" to stop the water being evaporated by the sun )

yellow tomatoes ready to eat, and our cucumber is delicious ! 

A very hot day and the soil needed lots of water so the plants can drink it !

We weeded this area, turned the soil around to make it fluffy, planted some onion seeds and then watered it ! Grow ONIONS grow!!

Room 3 - Watering the flower/herb pots near their class that they look after! 
Lavender, Rosemary and Thyme! Smells really nice!

Room 14 and their own classroom garden ! Sunflowers are huge ! They need lots of water! 
Room 6 planted cabbages, cauliflowers and broccoli 

Close up of the Broccoli and cabbage seedlings

Room 7 - Redeveloping our HERB GARDEN ! removed grass and other weeds, planted parsley and lavender and used rocks to landscape!