First crop planted!

Today we planted our first crop outdoors - garlic. We look forward to getting more produce into the ground after the Easter break.

False start with the composting!!

Well, on Monday, Lewis and Alexander forgot to go and collect the bucket from the canteen! Tuesday - Hannah turned up, but the canteen staff had not expected anyone so did not save any kitchen waste - sorry for that Hannah! Wednesday Ashleigh, Vicky and Alessandra nailed three pallets together to make another compost heap - and Miss Swallow collected the kitchen waste! Thursday Ashleigh remembered to collect it and is pictured here putting it into the bin - well done! Unfortunately today (Friday) Charlene and Bethany (ususally very reliable) completely forgot as well!! So I took it up myself again - come one guys, you must remember next week!

Now Composting Canteen Waste!

This week, buckets arrived - with lids and handles. We gave two to the canteen staff to put any raw kitchen waste into. We have a rota to make sure it gets collected every day, and put into our newly erected compost bin. Watch this space to see it in action next week!

Meanwhile, our peas and beans are coming along nicely in the greenhouse (need to start off more) and the strawberries have taken well in the pots until we plant them outside (pictured below).

During our meeting on Wednesday 10th March, we constructed a hexagonal compost bin, carried tyres up to the site and also took posession of a new 6by4 feet greenhouse kindly bought for us by Lewis and Hannah's grandfather. We look forward to inviting him back soon to help us plant our first seeds in there! Thankyou so much Mr MacKenzie!

Emergency Meeting!

At short notice, on Friday 5th March we had a meeting to deal with a delivery of 30 strawberry plants! They needed potting up so that they would not dry out over the weekend. Thanks goes to Alexander in S2 and Rosie, Alice and Ashleigh from S3 pictured here.

Getting ready for spring

On Wednesday 3rd March, Mrs Kendall from CDT showed us how we should go about digging blocks in and levelling them in order to put our shed up when the ground thaws! After all, we don't want it to be lopsided!

First Seeds Sown!

On Wednesday 3rd February, we sowed our first seeds of the year! We used a wooden "pot maker" to mould small pots out of strips of newspaper. We started with broad beans and several varieties of pea and will sow more next week and the week after so that we can harvest over a longer period of time. Whilst the weather remains wintry, we are keeping them in the science greenhouse so they can get a good head start!

Raffle Winners Announced!

On Wednesday 13th January we drew out two lucky winners for our raffle. They were Mr Patterson from Business & Computing and Mrs Leiper from Learning Support. Now we have to grow something tasty for them as their prize is a box of organic produce in the summer!! The raffle raised £56 towards our dream shed!! We now have enough to afford it - hooray!