We were excited to see how well everything had grown in the garden
during the summer. There is a lot of jobs to do over the coming half
term and Mr Trueman has kindly given us some spring flowers to plant. We
also have the bulbs that we found when clearing the flower beds last
term to replant into tubs too.
Yrs 1 & 2 were the first out today and they found the abundance
of caterpillars and their eggs on the radish leaves. Thankfully the
pumpkin plant has fuzzy leaves protecting them, although unfortunately
the slugs have eaten a few of the flowers. We hope of the 11 flowers
left, we will get some more pumpkins and our one current baby pumpkin
continues to grow and turn orange. 
The Strawberry plant is doing really well and seems to have bedded
down well in its stacked troughs,however all of the fruit is still
green. Years 3 & 4 we're quick to tell us that the strawberry plants
need sun as well as water and suggested we moved the plant to the
sunniest spot we could find in the garden, so we did. All the children
that came into the garden today helped to pick up the rotting apples
from the grass. Various tools and methods were used for collecting them
with the children showing great energy and enthusiasm, with over 120
collected in under an hour!
Nursery and Reception were quick to find the bright yellow tomato
plant flowers and then counted four green baby tomatoes that still have a
long way to go. They pulled up a few carrots and decided to replant
them for a little longer as they were no bigger than our little fingers.
Two of the sunflower plants have grown so tall that they are taller
than Mrs Johnson and Mrs Upton, we're going to measure them next week
and look forward to collecting all their seeds.
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