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Year 2 Gardening club May update
24/05/2013
Maya, Eva, Poppy, Joseph, Emile & Max went out in the lovely May sunshine to plant the dwarf Franch Beans in pots for the greenhouse and also two rows in the raised bed. The cauliflower, broccoli and cabbage that we had planted back in March has been eaten by snails in the greenhouse so the children also planted another lot of these seeds which we have put in pots in silver trays donated to us from the kitchen which we are hoping the snails will not climb into this time.
Eva-Maye, Chloe, Olivia, Joe, Yasmin & Leon had a fun time in the windy weather planting out the leeks. First they flattened the earth with an elegant boot dance and then made 10cm holes with bamboo canes, 15cm apart. Next they trimmed the roots of the leeks and then carefully inserted the leeks into the prepared holes using a lolly stick to help push the roots down. The leeks looked like soldiers standing to attention.
Max, Jacob, Saran, Andrea, Lili & Anna planted out the spinach and beetroot taking great care as the seedlings had to be delicately teased apart and planted making sure the roots were not broken They had great fun watering the plants and at times each other with our new garden hose!
Ocee, Arif, Byron, Lena, Otto & Harley helped to plant out the tomatoes in the superbly decorated pots provided by Forest School. After filling each pot with large stones for drainage, they added compost from big Hanna along with some organic compost and put two tomatoes in each pot. We positioned the pots by the railings and then gave each pot lots of water. The children also had time to help with some weeding and watering of the garden.
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Year 2 Gardening club April update
30/04/2013
Bethany, Megan, Oceana, Ellen, Lily & Aiden enjoyed getting out in the lovely spring sunshine for the first gardening club of the summer term. They planted radish and spring onions and weeded lots of the beds.
William, Eve, Sam, Boshan, Wiktor & Charlie were busy today planting another two rows of peas and also beetroot and spinach in pots to be kept in the greenhouse.
2B have also been helping with the planting and made pots from newspaper and planted 20 sweetcorn seeds and 10 pumpkin seeds which we are keeping in the classroom to start with so we can keep an eye on them as they grow.
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Year 2 Gardening club March update
29/03/2013
Josh, Jacob, Sammy, William, Andrew & Anna harvested the last of the leeks and took them to Tanya, our School Cook, along with some radishes from the greenhouse. They also planted the first row of peas.
Aiden, Megan, Lily, Oceana, Eva-Maye & Isabelle had fun in the lovely spring sunshine weeding and filling up one of the raised beds with compost from Big Hanna and also planting mangetout. They planted tomatoes, cabbage and broccoli seeds too for the greenhouse.
Olive, Nikola, Tim, Oli, Silvie & Amina went out in the drizzly rain and heavy wind to plant out potatoes. They have been 'chitting' on the windowsill of the classroom for about 6 weeks and were ready to plant in the beds. The children weeded the bed and dug deep holes for each potato. They also planted courgette seeds in trays.
Alfie, Lili, Aimee, Alisha, Matthew & Zac helped to plant two rows of carrots and parsnips. We decided to cover the bed with our new cloche, hoping that this will give the seeds a good start and protect them from the cold and windy weather.
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Year 2 Gardening Club February update
05/03/2013
Chloe, Hams, Saran, Lili, Daniel & Alfie had the fun job of finishing digging over the new bed that their classmates in 2B had started last month. They planted 2 strawberry plants each in the new bed and also helped with weeding a few of the other raised beds.
Joshua, Jack, Amber, Leon, Oliver & Rosa planted pepper seeds and lettuce seeds to be kept in our greenhouse. They used compost from our composter Big Hanna. They also helped with the weeding.
Poppy, Felix, Fadel, Ellery, Sienna & Blake helped to plant cauliflower and leek seeds which we are keeping in the greenhouse to start with and also cucumber seeds which we have decided to keep inside in the Art Room where it is a little warmer. They also harvested the leeks that we had planted at gardening club last year. The Reception children used the leeks in the vegetable stew they made in their cooking lesson.
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Year 2 Gardening Club January update
05/02/2013
Jack, Maya, Eva, Joseph, Max and Sophia had lots of fun digging over the big vegetable bed removing the last of the weeds. They also helped to create a new bed where we are hoping to plant some more strawberry plants that have grown from our existing strawberry plants.
After a week of snow showers and very cold temperatures Jahir, Aiden, George, Olivia, Oceana and Chloe were very pleased the sun came out and we were able to get out into the school garden. The children collected all the daffodil pots that we had started off in the greenhouse and planted the daffodils in the flower beds at the front of our school. We also weeded the beds and took the garden waste to our composter Big Hanna.
Maya, Samuel, Darcey, Coby, Freya and Callie collected the chard seedlings from the greenhouse that had been planted from seed at Gardening Club a few months ago and planted them out in the big bed. They were extremely careful with this job as the seedlings were very delicate. The children also worked hard weeding two of the raised beds. At the end of gardening club we took the opportunity to go and look at all the frogspawn and frogs in the pond.