Building our Compost Bays and Holding a Bake Sale

On Friday this week, we held a bake sale at break and lunch time.

Lots of people enjoyed the cakes...

...we had a selection including a variety of cup cakes, shortbread, lemon & orange slices, our own home-grown pumpkin cake, chocolate cake, giant chocolate buttons and even sticky toffee pudding plus chocolate mouse so lots to choose from!

We raised £27.61 which we will add to our Sense Scotland Fund for deaf-blind children.  That means we now have a grand total of £65 so well done DiGGers and thank you to all those that contributed!

Earlier in the week, we also made real progress with our new composting area.

We starting cladding the sides of the first bay with timber that the Forest School group had cut for us up at Evanton Woods. 

Sara holds the wood whilst Connorhan fixes it. 

Carrie nails the other end. 

 We all took turns with the hammering (the little hammer was quite difficult to use compared to the full-sized claw hammer!)

Ayisha has a good eye! 

Danielle concentrating on the nail! 

Meanwhile, Connorhan sharpened some lengths of 2 by 1 timber that we will use to re-fix the OJ Greenhouse to the ground. 

The wall gets higher! 

Then we start the back. 

Using the larger hammer... 

...and a spirit level to make sure the panels are level! 

 Watch this space to see the three bays emerge!

 We hope to be able to get all our compost into it so the garden will look much tidier because at the moment, we have more compost, weeds, trimmings and general garden waste than we can handle!

Meanwhile, there are still seeds in the garden - including these Honesty seeds in their delicate papery seed case. 

Also, a new leaf-mould pile is in the process of being constructed - using chicken wire and smaller lengths of wood.  We will place it near the garden entrance so that the Janitors can add leaves to it when they sweep the bus bay area in future.