DIGGers meet on Wednesday and Thursday lunchtimes - we aim to grow our own fruit and veg and have fun eating it! We also raise money for charity each year through a growing competition and give our primary schools a competition to try and win the "Lewis MacKenzie Trophy" (see bottom of page for a list of winners and fundraisers).
Friday, 24 January 2014
Staying in the Warm!
This week, we stayed out of the bitter cold! There are things to keep us busy. On Wednesday, we were counting copper coins for Sense Scotland - the charity that helps deaf-blind children.
Our Sunflower Growing competition will be launched next month but already, Vicki and family have been collecting coins in one of the money boxes they sent us - just under £4 already - well done!
We also learned how to make an origami seed packet - one sheet of paper folded with seeds inside, so they cannot drop out. We are preparing to give each primary school three packets with a few pumpkin seeds.
Our Lewis MacKenzie competition this year is for them to try and grow the largest pumpkin so they each have three "Hundredweight" seeds. They will also have two packs containing more unusual pumpkin seeds along with a great recipe to try with them in the autumn!
On Thursday, we started to make the seed packets with the seeds inside. Here you can see Simona (and Vicki) labelling them. We will need thirty in total!
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