Planting our new herb bed

We got a load of topsoil and manure delivered to school this week, luckily we have plenty of helping hands to get it moved out of the school car park!

Sadly it is time to cut back our lovely wildflower bed, we have saved a lot of seed, some to sell and some to save for next year.  We cut down the flowers and dug up the roots to compost.

We then topped up the raised bed with some topsoil and manure to get the soil in good condition for next year.

We have filled up the new raised beds with top soil and have put a layer of leaf mulch in, which will hopefully rot down over the winter and condition the soil for next year.

We put our new herb plants on top of the raised bed to decide where to put each variety.  We talked about why the mint needed to be planted inside a large pot, as it spreads and tends to take over the whole bed.

Planting the herbs in the soil - and the finished bed.  Hopefully it will provide us with lots of fresh herbs for our cooking next year.

The other part of the new raised bed is going to be for bulbs and spring flowers.  We used crocus bulbs to spell out EPICC, hopefully this will work and the flowers will spell this out in the spring?

We planted a selection of other bulbs, daffodils, tulips, and more crocuses and then covered them up with more topsoil.

Here are some narcissus we planted a few weeks ago, they are flowered now and smell beautiful.  We have shared our lovely flowers with the rest of the school.