Shed finished, tyres ready for beans.

Another week goes by and we have got more jobs done! As you can see above, the shed is now finished - we put the felt on the roof on Friday as well as fitting the windows and doors. On Monday we filled three tyres with soil and tied canes ready for planting runner beans. You can also see that our brussel sprout plants are doing well:

Greenhouse finished, shed started!

Here you can see the greenhouse which has been anchored into the ground and there are now some seedlings in it. We didn't have any washers at the end of the day on Monday, so we improvised as you can see below - let's hope that makes it a lucky greenhouse!

Today, we made a start on the shed. It took a long time to get the base level and straight. It was hard work carrying everything down from the store and there is still more to do to get it finished.

Nearly there with the greenhouse!

This has been a busy week. On Monday, we dug some flat areas and turned turf ready for tyres to be filled with soil. We also used an axe, fork and rake to level out a platform for the greenhouse. Miss Swallow spent some extra time after school making a wooden holding frame to allow us to shovel a load of gravel making a good flat area ready for the greenhouse.

Wednesday, we transported lots of barrows of the gravel down to the plot. Below you can see us inventing a new passtime - gravel dancing - to tread it all down!We didn't meet on Friday as Ross County football were visiting the school on their way to their cup final match in Hampden!

Also, Mr MacKenzie who bought us the greenhouse, came in to help Miss Swallow put it together on Wednesday and again on Thursday - it's still not finished (fiddly but we are almost there!)

We need to get the greenhouse up!

This week, we were off on holiday on Monday. We planted brussel sprout plants into raised beds on Wednesday then we started off more potatoes in bags and planted onions between the sprouts on Friday.

Miss Swallow has taken some seedlings home to repot and look after, and we have more under our cloche but the slugs are going to be our enemy!! Some seedlings have been eaten already which is why we really want to get the greenhouse up asap! We are going to level a platform and lay grit this coming week (slugs hate crawling over grit!), then hopefully Mr MacKenzie can come to help put the greenhouse up.

Oh yes! We featured in the North Star too this week - with details about the Sunflower competition. The seedlings are coming on nicely - look out for a photo of them in our very own greenhouse next week (hopefully!)

Below you can see lettuce (in the tray), peas, corgettes and pumpkins and a mung bean sprout that Lewis planted instead of eating it, just to see what happened!