Garden Party - A great day had by all!

 On Thursday, pupils from three primary schools: Marybank, Dingwall and Tarradale came for a day of activities.  Pupils from the "How does your garden grow?" elective class were in charge of the activities and did a great job.  DiGGers were in charge of catering and generally looking after everyone!

Above you can see leek seedlings being planted out.

Activities involved exploring the garden!

...completing a quiz.

Also, learning knots ...

... this one is a "clove hitch"...

... they could then be used to build structures for beans to grow up.

Grigor demonstrates how to plant a runner bean plant.

Doing a "feel test" to see if they can tell the difference between different types of soil!

Garlic bread warming on the BBQ for lunch

Each school brought produce from their own gardens to share!

An orderly queue for soup at the BBQ (homemade from our very own leeks and potatoes)

There was not much left over after this lot had finished!

 After lunch, Danielle, Catriona, Charlotte and Lewis announce the winners of the sunflower competition - Dingwall Primary - with a height of 92 cm.  Tarradale came second with 67 cm and Marybank third with 33 cm.

 Lewis presented the winners with the trophy.  They were very proud to win it.

 Last year's "smile" potatoes were discovered in the soil.

 The "team" looked after all the catering and set up the table - covering the cakes to protect them from drizzly rain.

 Lewis's amazing cup cakes!  Pupils were collecting the cocktail sticks after eating their cakes!

 Lewis's grand-dad joined in and did a good lot of weeding.  He also showed lots of pupils different grubs and invertebrates.

 Charlotte making a hot chocolate.  DiGGers did themselves proud looking after all the children.

 Various bugs and grubs.

The day ended with toasted marshmallows

We also passed a "talking pumpkin" plant round - you can only talk when holding the pumpkin plant!  People then said what they enjoyed most from the day.

I think this face says it all!  Thank you to everyone who came to the garden party - maybe some of you will join the DiGGers next term?!  And thank you to both my Gardening class volunteers and the DiGGers for doing such a great job of looking after everyone.  Have a lovely holiday and see you next term!!