Sorry for not blogging this week, but it's half term holidays so there's not much happening in the garden, apart from the weeds growing madly in this very wet weather.
On the last Thursday before we broke up for the hols, Mrs W and the children cleared out the polytunnel - most of the seeds are planted outside and there only remained the tomatoes. Mrs W has taken them home to look after, saving us going to school to water them. Next week we are getting grow bags for our juvenile tomato plants and letting them mature in the greenhouse. We'll probably also start another round of seedlings to prolong the season.
On the Friday was our Jubilee Celebrations day and with so much happening, we suspended gardening though Mrs W and I still got our hands dirty. Mrs W dug a hole for our Jubilee Tree in the playground and later, together with Miss Bergmanis, helped 300 children plant their individual lobelias into their hand painted Jubilee pots to take home. It was lovely to see quite a few of the children expertly transfer their flower from one pot to another with hardly any guidance from us - we have taught them well!
The weather for our week long break has been awful to say the least. The rain has returned with a vegeance and it has rained almost every day (my house looks like Widow Twanky's and lost count how many times I've got soaked dog walking!). Dread to think what the garden will look like - six foot weeds, but hopefully our vegetables will have taken off and thrived - at least it's been warm(ish) rain..........
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