29th January - Making some bird-feeders and planting a few seeds.

Today we emptied some of the tyres which we used to grow potatoes.  We can't use the soil to grow potatoes again this year, so we re-used it in some pots to grow daffodils.

While we were emptying the tyres we discovered quite a stash of potatoes which had drown inside the rims of the tyres - think it's going to be wedges on Friday?

Here are a few of the bird-feeders which the students made with Sarah on Wednesday.  They are made from tree branches, which were drilled to fit dowels for perches, larger holes were made and packed with a mixture of fat and bird-seed.  

We also started to sow some seeds to put in the greenhouse or our cold frames.  We firstly sieved the soil to remove stones etc.

Here is are tray of while echinacea. 

Some large mixed carnations.

And some pertunias.