A busy week as summer holidays approach

This was the last week of term - and a busy one too! On Monday, we picked some radish.

There are two varieties - "French Breakfast" and "Cherry Belle"

We also emptied out some potatoe bags - here Charlotte picks out the "Rocket" variety...

...and here you can see why these red ones are called "Smile"!

Tuesday was an activity day, so everyone was off doing adventurous things. Miss Swallow made the most of the emptyness by arranging for David Locket to come with his tractor to move a bench from behind the canteen.

It's a concrete and wood bench - really heavy!

With skilled manoevering, he lifted it and put it onto a trailer to drive right out and around the school grounds...

...and into the garden.

Here you can see it fits very well on our flat patch. This means we can sit for lunch in good weather, and there's room for classes to sit around it when the new course starts next August.

Wednesday was an activity in the garden. Charlotte and two others worked really hard all day! We moved pansies from the barrels at the front of the school and planted them in our flower "wildlife" bed. We then planted the barrels up with geraniums and lupins for summer colour. More photos to come when consent forms have been signed!

In the afternoon, Catriona (back from Paris) came in to join Charlotte to paint the shed. Here, Danielle is back from the wildlife park too and is helping to treat the tool box. Other jobs we did included lots of weeding, and cutting the old carpets to cover the raised beds and keep out weeds. We also enjoyed a healthy lunch of cold boiled "smile" potatoes, hummus, our own lettuce and radish and other salad (all sitting around the new bench).

On Thursday we potted the walking stick cabbages into big pots ready to go on display at Frank Nicols on Friday. I wonder how tall they will grow.

See our first cauliflower appearing - we are very excited!! lol

Potting up wall flowers so they don't die over the summer break.

Eight raised beds protected and ready for a delivery of soil (hopefully in August). Rob will be in the garden over the summer break to finish the tool box and dig in eight more raised beds as now there will be two classes using the garden for the new course in August.

So, we are now on holiday for six weeks. Let's hope there's a reasonable amount of rain to keep things watered, and some warmth the help things grow! We shall be busy weeding and cropping the potatoes on our return - 'til then, we say "Au Revoir"!