Today we enjoyed having some visitors in the garden. Pupils from St Clement's school, one of our local primaries came up for a morning of activities. We started by getting to know each other and remember names - each person had to think of an animal that began with the same letter as their name. The garden had a dog and a few cats in it - including lions, a jaguar and meer cat! Other creatures included a kangaroo, elephant, zebra, lizard, alligator, dragon, massive snake and a bird!
After exploring the garden in order to find the answers to a quiz, and having drinks, they learned about worms. Did you know a worm has five hearts? It breathes through it's skin and has a "saddle" where eggs are formed. It is also a myth that if you cut a worm in half, both ends will live - not true - only the end with the saddle (light coloured bulging bit) will survive! They then hunted for different kinds of worms by digging in soil, fishing about in the leaf mold pile and investigating the compost heap (where stripy ones were found).
A couple of worms and a lava
Stripy ones like it in the compost heap.
Luke found a feather - from a crow perhaps?
After lunch, they helped us plant some peas, sunflowers and other plants.
We finished by passing round a "talking sunflower" (instead of a "talking stick") so each person could say what they had enjoyed the most. We were lucky with the weather, and everyone had an enjoyable time. They invited us to visit their garden in return, so we look forward to that in future.
We waved them goodbye. Thanks for coming, we hope to see you again soon!
Afterwards, we put labels on each potato plant bag (in case we got the numbers mixed up!)
We loaded all 23 plants into Mr MacFarlane's pick-up truck...
...and drove them to Frank Nicol's garden centre.
We put them on display so the public can guess which they think will grow the most potates.
Jimmy from the garden centre was happy for us to set things up. We are grateful that they will top up the plants with soil as they grow!
Don't forget, we are raising money for the Highland Hospice this year - people can donate at justgiving.com/diggers.
We then drove to the Greenhouse Community shop. The sun was getting to Danielle and Grigor, so they rested in the shade!
Lewis, Mr MacFarlane and Catriona set up the display
We left an information board about the competition for people to read as they have their refreshments outside. Thanks to the Greenhouse for looking after the rest of the plants for us! Lewis works in the shop too, so he can top them up for us as they grow.
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