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Post by derekbrooks on May 15, 2017 21:46:41 GMT
To answer your question, Cat, there is a large polytunnel , 4 veg beds and 8 individual beds for the children. To show you the size I am going to show you some pictures , the first one being a plan of the whole site. I think I have shown you some of the pictures before, though.
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Post by derekbrooks on May 15, 2017 21:51:33 GMT
Plan of school gardens. The numbers are in feet
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Post by derekbrooks on May 15, 2017 21:56:15 GMT
Childrens individual veg beds
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Post by derekbrooks on May 15, 2017 21:59:39 GMT
Four veg beds along the fence
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Post by derekbrooks on May 15, 2017 22:05:41 GMT
School polytunnel.That greenhouse isn't there now. The shed is there instead
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Post by derekbrooks on May 15, 2017 22:11:06 GMT
Tomatoes in polytunnel.This is the last picture. Hope they have helped
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Post by Cat on May 18, 2017 20:21:02 GMT
Lovely to see. We have a polytunnel and raised beds as well as a large plot but its all on cornish hillside and stony (hence the beds!)
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Post by derekbrooks on May 18, 2017 21:52:31 GMT
Thanks for your comment, Cat. Today we have got an extra girl so we have 5 now. Two girls sowed beetroot, turnips and swedes in the same bed that radish and carrots were sown last week. One sowed some more lettuce in cell trays and one sowed courgettes in drinking cups . The other one planted some cabbages and cauliflowers which had been sown in drinking cups before. They kept swapping jobs and helping each other. When I ask them to sow brassicas in drinking cups or lettuce in cell trays I tell them to put three or four seeds in each . Some that were sown a few weeks ago were ready to thin to one in each cup or compartment so I showed them how to do this when they had finished their other jobs. I took the potato compost that I had made a few days ago and topped up the potatoes growing in bags.
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Post by derekbrooks on May 26, 2017 21:53:35 GMT
When I had put my post on my other diary page last night , my computer wouldn't let me go onto this page to tell you what we had been doing in Garden Club. It was the last garden club before the half term holiday so we have two weeks off now. There were five girls . They kept swopping jobs but they sowed broad beans in the bed and also some in pots in case any in the rows don't germinate. They planted out some lettuce, leeks and onion sets that had been grown earlier.
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Post by derekbrooks on Jun 15, 2017 22:10:38 GMT
Garden club started again today after the half term break. There were about 7 children and different ones than we had before. Gina was back after being off sick the rest of the term. Most of the sowing and planting had been done for this year so there wasn't a lot for all these children to do . Three of them worked with me in the polytunnel and Gina had the rest doing litter picking round the football field ( not gardening really).Some of the peas we had sown in drinking cups didn't germinate so I told them to sow another pea in these cups. They also sowed some more lettuce in cell trays. There were three varieties, little Gem, All the year round and Webb's wonderful and they did a tray of each.
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Post by derekbrooks on Jun 22, 2017 22:22:37 GMT
We had 8 children today. There is not much sowing and planting to do now ,not enough for all these children. So Gina took 5 of them to trim "Fred the head". I have shown you a picture of this before. It is a pile of soil on the edge of the sports field covered with grass and articles fixed to it to look like eyes, nose and ears. The other three worked with me. I had three cucumber plants which I originally got from Dobies as plug plants and have grown on in my greenhouse and were now in 5 inch pots. I took these and I showed them how to pot them on into their final pots. One girl went out and planted out some calabrese into the bed. The other two sowed some French beans in drinking cups . There were two varieties so they did one each.
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Post by derekbrooks on Jun 29, 2017 22:27:48 GMT
I just had one girl working with me this afternoon . The rest of them carried on trimming "Fred the head" with Gina. She planted about 12 courgettes , then 12 sprouts on one of the spare plots. In the past,each child has had his or her own small plot to grow their own produce. This has not happened this year though because the headmistress insists on changing the children every half term. The children wouldn't have their plots long enough . We have only had these children for three weeks and there are only two more weeks till the end of term , ie. only five weeks altogether. This is why there are these spare plots. There were a lot of radishes ready so I took then up and washed them and the children all took some home.
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Post by roofgardener on Jun 30, 2017 17:52:54 GMT
That is a VERY impressive growing area derekbrooks. I see you have what look like plastic bottles on top of your tomato canes. What are they for ?
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Post by derekbrooks on Jun 30, 2017 21:56:57 GMT
Hi Roofie Gina puts these bottles on the canes so that when children are bending down they get the canes in their faces or, worse still in their eyes. I put 3 foot canes in the plants to begin with but now they have longer canes which are tied to a horizontal wire.
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Post by roofgardener on Jul 1, 2017 7:56:49 GMT
Ahhhh.. that makes perfect sense derekbrooks. I might consider that myself.
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