Today at the allotment, the grownups and children chatted about the jobs which needed to be completed. Now that the bark had been moved into our allotment, we had to rake it out and make sure our orchard was covered however we needed to remove the fallen apples and pears and pop them into the compost bin first. It was then time to rake the bark. Our orchard is now complete so we decided to have our picnic underneath the fruit trees. It was perfect until it started to rain. It was very light rain to begin with, then it came down much heavier. We all ran to the big shed where we sheltered from the rain. It was lovely to hear the rain dripping onto the roof and watching the rain water our garden.

Our other jobs were pulling out our cabbages which are looking particularly tasty. As we pulled out the cabbages, we noticed lots of different caterpillars and it was clear they thought our cabbages were tasty too! In the afternoon, we cut back all of the trees around our pond and pulled out the weeds around our strawberries as well as harvesting our green beans, potatoes, cabbages, beetroot and courgettes.