This week, we took a new group of children to the allotment, some of which had never seen our allotment before. We headed off in the minibus which is one of our favourite parts of the day as we spot different colour cars, bridges, shops and places we visit with our family. We often hear, “Look, there’s Morrisons. I go there with my Mummy and Daddy!”. We walked into our allotment and the children were immediately amazed by the amount of apples on our apple tree. We even had to duck our heads underneath it to get past!

After a look around the allotment at what was growing, we started to sort out our apple tree. We looked at some of the apples that had fallen on the ground and they did not look very tasty. Tara held up an apple and asked the children to decide whether they thought the apple was good to eat or needed to go on the compost. The children then worked as a team to place the apples in the correct places. We also did this with our plums and beans. We eventually stopped as we had three big buckets full of produce!

We worked on some our growing beds today and found more onions and potatoes which we had left behind. The children added these our buckets to bring back to nursery. We engaged in a little bit of weeding and we checked on our wonderful pumpkins (you may be able to see them in the background of the photo with the fruit cage). These will come in very handy around Halloween.