Oh boy! This is crazy weather! We Brits should be grateful for this wall to wall sunshine, but when your thermometer in your polytunnel hits 110 degrees in old money (45 degrees to the children) and you can't actually bear going into it, you know our weather has gone extreme.
We were in woolly jumpers last week, fretting if we would ever get a crop of tomatoes or strawberries and now our mantra is WATER, WATER, WATER!
Back to normal routine, we managed to get 2 groups of children out today. We planted our sunflowers against the polytunnel wall and watered everything in sight. In between, we sat on the logs under the cool shadow of the garden trees and gulped vast quantities of water. Even Carol off the BBC Breakfast Weather claimed it would be 25 degrees in the shade! Phew!
Again, we set up the flower stall. I manned it this morning until Mr Lucas opened the school gates and a herd of children swarmed around me and took over. This afternoon we had Joshua, Josh and Freya helping out with the selling and they actually got a bit of market stall patter going, before grabbing plants and heading into the crowds. They came back triumphant, clutching 50p's and celebrating a successful sale.
The flower stall will be set up again tomorrow for the last time for parents and staff. We are hoping that we will be able to offer vegetables very soon if this weather keeps up!
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| Leon cooling down under the trees |
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| Robbie doing a sterling job |
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| Thirsty work, Josh! |
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| Leon back to work, planting sunflowers |
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| Edie watering the pots |
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| Edie working hard |
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