This week the adults hardly had a chance to take any photos as the children had clearly come ready to do lots of work. Even when the adults said “Come on let’s have a five minute break”, the children replied “It’s ok, we just want to get our work done!”.

The day began with a discussion about what we needed to do that day. One group decided to work on the old rhubarb bed, emptying the soil out and creating a whole new bed with our tools. The two other groups helped to weed the vegetable beds which was very exciting as it gave us time to see what was growing and wow were we shocked. We have potatoes, sprouts, broccoli, cabbage, pumpkins, courgettes, onions and sweetcorn! That is not including everything growing in our polytunnel.

In the afternoon we continued working on our new herb garden. The rest of the membrane was placed on the ground which was then covered in bark. The children collected all of our beautiful pots and began to fill them with compost. Finally we filled some of the pots with flowers whilst our herb seedlings are still growing in the polytunnel.

Some children also helped to trim back some of our larger plants and bushes which we hope will create a pathway to our new composting area. What a busy day!