This week, the "How does your garden grow" class started planting bulbs - in the shape of a "D". 
Once they'd finished, we moved the guide rope and made an "A" to continue planting so in the spring, we'll have Dingwall Academy initials to welcome people to the school! 
On Wednesday this week Miss Swallow checked over the potatoe patch to find any stragglers left from last week. Connorhan, Keri and Caroline emptied more potatoes bags.
While this was going on, Charlotte, Catriona and Danielle were weighing out more produce for our organic boxes.
One box had this courgette in along with 2Kg of potatoes, a couple of onions, some garlic, lettuce and curley kale.
We had a belated birthday celebration for Danielle - something of a tradition in the shed now!
Grigor and Charlotte spotting "tiny potatoes" on Thursday.
We'll boil them after the holidays and enjoy eating them!
Also we have a new volunteer in the garden - Isabela. She has been helping to get on top of the weeding as you can see in this border (you couldn't see the soil for the weeds before she got started!)
Talking of volunteers, Rob has continued to do great things in the garden! Here you can see a notice board ready for us to put a "welcome" sign up for visitors to see. He has also sorted out the water butts and set up siphons so we can use water from all three containers now - one is handy for the washing station.
Danielle gets artistic with the camera!
One box had this courgette in along with 2Kg of potatoes, a couple of onions, some garlic, lettuce and curley kale. We had a belated birthday celebration for Danielle - something of a tradition in the shed now! Grigor and Charlotte spotting "tiny potatoes" on Thursday. We'll boil them after the holidays and enjoy eating them! Also we have a new volunteer in the garden - Isabela. She has been helping to get on top of the weeding as you can see in this border (you couldn't see the soil for the weeds before she got started!) Talking of volunteers, Rob has continued to do great things in the garden! Here you can see a notice board ready for us to put a "welcome" sign up for visitors to see. He has also sorted out the water butts and set up siphons so we can use water from all three containers now - one is handy for the washing station.Danielle gets artistic with the camera!
Getting ready for Spring ... one of the cheerfullest things about the coming Winter is knowing that beneath the ground there lurks a celebration of lovely asphodels.
ReplyDelete"Strow me the ground with daffadowndillies, And cowslips, and kingcups, and loved lilies." --Spenser
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Sigh!
Your "courgettes" (zucchini over here) seem a little small ... perhaps you have a different cultivar (is that the right word?) ... over here, they are famous for being quite big, and rather too plentiful. Most folk can't use all they get, and end up sneaking about the neighbourhood at night, leaving zucchini on peoples' doorsteps. I swear I am not making that up. Such uses as zucchini bread, zucchini cake, zucchini salsa, and various main dishes have been devised. They are actually very good, but one tires of zucchini. I, personally, like to split a large one lengthwise and quickly broil it, inside up, with spices on it (be creative!) and serve it hot, with grated parmesan. But it's also good raw. I love it.
Your new worker looks a little peaked ... better take her down to the local pub and get her refreshed.
Addendum: I just noticed the picture of the devastated rhubarb in my files, and thought I'd post it for my redneck buddies to have a look at ... the answers were pretty much in line with what we thought earlier: not bunnies or deer (these good ol' boys have lots of problems with deer in their gardens, so they always think of that first; lots of deer in our South, but fairly small; they're hunted pretty much year 'round ... bunnies, too, and these lads are experts at taking them with what you call a rook rifle), but maybe a fox ... especially as the soil seems disturbed. But caterpillars, snails or slugs seem to be the consensus, or perhaps some sort of insect. One chap proposed leafcutter bees, but the damage doesn't look right.
ReplyDeleteI know there are foxes in the UK; my friend in the Norfolk area is forever posting pictures of them, and a Londoner I know finds many, too. Clever beasts, who know how to live with humans and not be noticed; you might have an eye to that possibility.