We are still growing

Just before half term we planted seed potatoes in a potato bag, made our own pots from newspaper, filled them with compost and planted tomato seeds in them and started to de-weed our fruit and herb garden. The weeds have taken over!!!! We will need to spend a few weeks de-weeding! We have planted some seeds to grow a mix of flowers and we looked at the different kinds of seeds that were in the pack.  We have planted the seeds individually and made guesses as to what flower they will be.  Mrs Davies brought in a box for us to grow our own mushrooms.  It has special compost with the mushrooms spores in and we didn't realise that they need to grow in the dark.

Gardening Update!

We have had a very busy couple of weeks.  We have been growing lots of vegetables from seed.  We planted beetroot, cucumber, tomato, broccoli and courgette.  We planted them outside in our raised bed and were very proud of our results.  We covered them over with netting to stop the cats but when we looked again a few days later, everything had gone! We think the birds took a liking to our delicious seedlings and took them.  We are going to try again and hopefully try and deter the birds!

Checking out our 'Pea Stalks'

We looked at our 'Pea Stalks' today and wow haven't they grown! We talked about how to look after them when we take them home. We also planted some ornamental Gourds in pots with our gardening buddies.

We are planting!

The weather has finally broken and we are itching to get our hands dirty so after a shopping trip to B&Q we finally start planting!  We bought strawberry plants, lavender, thyme, rosemary, lots of beautiful flowers and even some fruit trees. Let's hope the weather holds out for us.

Collaged flower

Due to the very heavy rain we decided to make a collage flower indoors.  We had a lot of fun getting messy with the tissue paper and glue but the final flowers look amazing. Don't you think? Our Amaryllis had also grown and we took the measurements of the plant and compared them to what we had guessed.

Jack and the Beanstalk

We filled plastic cups with soil and popped in dried peas to see if we could grow our very own Pea Stalk.  We put a stick in the middle to support the peas and drew a castle which we stuck on top of the stick. We then added cotton wool to the bottom of the castle to look like clouds and added a drawn picture of ourselves as Jack.

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Cress Heads

Mrs Davies and Mrs Evans thought it would be a good idea if we grew cress on our heads! We had our photographs taken and put onto plant pots. We filled the pots with wet cotton wool and sprinkled cress seeds on top.  We kept them watered and look at us now!

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Trumpet Flowers

For the beginning of the new term we planted Amaryllis flowers with our gardening buddies (ECO Council).  We made guesses as to what height they might grow to. We talked about how many flowers we might have and the best way to look after them.

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Planting bulbs

To finish off our gardening club for Christmas we planted daffodil bulbs and crocus bulbs.  We drew pictures of the flowers and tried to write their names. We enjoyed getting very messy indeed.

What a busy few weeks we've had

We pulled up some of the leeks that the ECO Council grew and Mrs Davies washed them, cut them up and cooked them for us to try.  Some of us dived in straight away but some of us needed a little coaxing.  They were super tasty!

 

We made scarecrows out of card and sticks and they look fabulous in our garden.

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To help feed the birds we made some bird feeders out of kitchen roll holders, peanut butter and bird seed.  They smelled good enough to eat.