Digging a hole and Finding Red Kale seeds.

This week we did a few jobs. Above you can see Catriona and Grigor searching out Red Kale Seeds from the dried pods. They were given to us at the potato day! We will plant them into small home-made pots soon.

Danielle is helping to dig a hole (and yes, her spade does look like a pogo-stick!). The hole was started by the Elective class. We decided it was going to be a "Lowered Bed" as opposed to a "Raised Bed" because we are digging down into rubble and stony soil so that we can sift it, mix in better quality soil and some leaf mold then plant out six fruit trees that we bought on the Potato Day. Two gooseberries, two red currents and two white currents.

The digging is hard work but we are making steady progress. Also this week, we cordoned off the Scots Pine trees that we have re-planted to stop pupils in their football boots running across the area and stepping on the saplings!

On Wednesday, Connorhan and Miss Swallow also used the tape to lay on the ground and mark off where we would like to plant a hedge. There is going to be a "Staff Green Gym" on Friday lunchtime, to start turning the turf for it to rot down ready for planting hedgerow plants in the autumn. Also, we plan to sow wild flowers (next month) on each side of it to encourage insects to visit the garden.