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).
Thursday, 13 March 2014
Preparing for Spring
Lots happened in the garden this week behind the scenes!
Last week, we had a delivery from the Woodland Trust - two boxes containing hedge plant saplings. The elective classes started planting them out straight away. There are 105 however, so this will take some time!
On Wednesday, we put them into pots loosely packed with soil to keep them healthy until they get planted.
On Thursday, two volunteers came in and worked tirelessly to rescue our forlorn tool store! It had been blown over in a freak gust last Friday.
They managed to "right" it and then finished building it - felting the roof and fixing doors onto it.
This will really help to keep our tools organised and free up our "social space" in the shed!
At lunchtime on Thursday, Sara and Danielle tidied the Betty MacKenzie greenhouse by emptying out all the pots and dead plants.
(That's after they'd had a "sword fight" whilst putting two canes away!)
We want to get things ready to start sowing seeds and planting now the days are getting longer and the weather is getting warmer.
Meanwhile, spring is getting on with "springing!" We have self-seeded snowdrops and crocus and our daffodil bulbs are showing through the ground.
Our Euonymus alatus bush is also coming into bud - we look forward to green shoots, and some artwork portraying this plant from our new resident "botanic artist" - an S6 student studying Advanced Higher Art.
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