Garden Frustrations

Good job!

These two were a great team

Millisa busy potting up her Jubilee pot

Another week passes, and yet more rain, which seems to occur on Thursday and Friday afternoons between the hours of 1pm and 3pm.  This is rather inconvenient as that's the time when we garden with the children and  it rather scuppers our plans.  Our beds remain bare - with the threat of frosts last weekend, we just daren't put any of our seedlings into the ground and they remain, bursting from their pots, in our polytunnel. Apart from that, the constant rain has made the ground claggy and who wants to plant out in the rain? Our plan of having a four week cycle of plants has firmly crashed at the first hurdle.

So the children have been busy planting red, blue and white flowers into large planters, to create our Jubilee theme.  These will be placed in the front entrance of our school and will be a fantastic Jubilee Celebration display. The children have really enjoyed the planting and there are several pots ready to go up to our front door.

Robbie and Leon working together

Interserve popped in today to have a final look at our pond before they start work on it after the half term in June.  We've asked for some fencing, a better pathway around the pond and the building of two pond dipping platforms as well as some rotivation of the surrounding grass to create our wildlife meadow.  It's great that we've got a start date now and something to look forward to.