We finished working on our Potato Day posters on Wednesday this week. On Thursday, we just wanted to be in the garden! Lewis and Catriona potted on some winter pansies in the shed whilst Danielle and Grigor started to clear winter debris from the raised beds and surrounding area. We have had a lot of gales that have strewn the garden with branches and twigs!
The Walking Stick Cabbages looked a lot neater once we cleared the debris. Some were a little lopsided too, so we pushed the support sticks deeper into the ground.
Here you can see a solitary wasp nest in the greenhouse. Not sure if it will still contain an egg that will emerge as a wasp in Spring, or if the hole means one already emerged at the end of last summer?? I have read that a solitary wasp will build a nest, lay an egg and bring a paralysed insect into it for the lava to eat when it hatches. It will then seal it, so seeing as there's a hole in this one I think it must now be empty. Any entomologists that could confirm this - please add a comment!
We finished working on our Potato Day posters on Wednesday this week. On Thursday, we just wanted to be in the garden! Lewis and Catriona potted on some winter pansies in the shed whilst Danielle and Grigor started to clear winter debris from the raised beds and surrounding area. We have had a lot of gales that have strewn the garden with branches and twigs!
The Walking Stick Cabbages looked a lot neater once we cleared the debris. Some were a little lopsided too, so we pushed the support sticks deeper into the ground.
Here you can see a solitary wasp nest in the greenhouse. Not sure if it will still contain an egg that will emerge as a wasp in Spring, or if the hole means one already emerged at the end of last summer?? I have read that a solitary wasp will build a nest, lay an egg and bring a paralysed insect into it for the lava to eat when it hatches. It will then seal it, so seeing as there's a hole in this one I think it must now be empty. Any entomologists that could confirm this - please add a comment!
We hope to grow them on a little in the greenhouse before planting them into the barrels outside the front of the school. 
The leeks are still quite small but will continue to grow through the winter months.
This week we we got to taste five different varieties of potato! Thanks to all those in room 1 who prepared, boiled and mashed the potatoes during period 4 on Friday.
If you look carefully, you can see Danielle has drawn a small symbol on each plate to identify the variety - above is "King Edwards" hence the crown!
Here, a large pile of "Pink Fir Apple". Other varieties were Smile, Peach Bloom and Blue Belle. We tasted the same ones together at the same time to try and describe their flavours and then voted for our favourite three. It was surprising how different they tasted! 
We also had beansprouts (Mung, Adikis and Chick Peas) along with lettuce and radish grown by Miss Swallow's gardening class. The lettuce and radish were nice and peppery. 
Above, you can see most of the produce was polished off!
On Thursday Danielle got artistic again - both with the greenhouse window and the camera:
Lettuce leafs are still looking fresh despite a few frosty mornings.
Lewis, Charlotte and Catriona created a new leaf mold pile using posts and chicken wire.
Meanwhile Miss Swallow finished weeding behind the greenhouse so...
...Danielle and Catriona could throw down a selection of daffodil and crocus bulbs.
We straightened them up then Lewis helped Catriona throw soil over the top of them.
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