In our garden
Seed potatoes, not potato seeds…
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We learnt that you have to plant potatoes to make more potatoes, but before you do that you can give them a bit of help by letting them grow tubers. We have our seed potatoes and have put them on…
Frosty in the Garden
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We stepped out into the garden to find everything frozen solid, everything was white and icy, it looked like magic.
Clearing up, picking what’s left.
It’s the end of September and the vegetable beds are looking like they are nearly finished for another season. We all helped to pull out the old sweetcorn stalks. It took us all plenty of pulling to get them out…
Pulling carrots, and other veg
This week we were able to pull some carrots, long and thin. We all helped pick beans and pulled up a large beetroot too!
Noticing old tomatoes turning red
We have seen a lot of green tomatoes that looked as if they would never turn red, but today there was sunshine all day and we spotted them starting to change colour.
Loving corn on the cob
They have grown way over the top of everyone’s heads, the sweetcorn is ready to pick. There is nothing better than fresh sweetcorn at lunch time, especially when you have been the one picking it.
Digging for treasure
What are those large plants at the end of the garden? Let’s pull them up and see! We used our hands to dig in the soil and discovered potatoes; big ones and small ones, some massive ones.
Picking peas, eating peas
We have watched our peas over the weeks getting larger and fatter. Today we picked peas, we popped them out of their pods, and then ate them at lunch time. We picked strawberries to have afterwards, they were warm and…
We love our summer time garden
The flamingo helps us keep the vegetables watered, early in the morning before the sun is fully up and it gets too hot. For lunch we can look for ripe strawberries and peas getting fat and ready to come out…
Early morning watering
Everyone arrived on a hot sunny morning, the first thing we did was to take turns watering the vegetables in the garden. They were very thirsty.