The students have been working hard in the poly-tunnel topping up the raised beds with some of the manure we got delivered from a local farm.
The Scholarship students seedlings are continuing to do well.
Raspberry canes have been planted inside pots to see if we can root them, hopefully this will allow us to grow a few more raspberries next year.
Our friends from Shiremoor Allotment Association have made us a fantastic potting table - it looks amazing!
Our ducks don't mind all this wet rainy weather at all, there are not as many slugs and snails in the garden so they quack at anyone walking past, they have also been feasting on the Kale we have growing in the garden.
A duck decoy was strangely discovered on one of our school mini buses - no-one knows where it has come from but it seems very much at home in our pond.
Due to all the wet rainy weather we have had to put a tarpaulin on the hen run to try to keep it dry.
The orchard has been given an Autumn tidy up, manure has been put around the trees and the fruit bushes.
Garlic starting to peek through the soil.
This is all that is left of our huge manure pile!
Work is progressing in the Scholarship garden, the beds have been topped up and have a thick layer of manure, paths have been laid with weed barrier and topped with wood chippings.
One of our students cutting down the sunflowers which have now finished for the year. We have really enjoyed having them grown up the school fence and will definitely grow them again next year.
The sunflower stalks heading for the compost heap.
Digging a hole for one of our young holy bushes.
Tidying the shed - we discovered a mouse had made an amazing nest inside the shoe of one of our members of staff!
The scholarship students have been doing an experiment to make rooting compound from willow. They snipped up small pieces of willow and added water, hot or cold. They were then left in the poly-tunnel to see what would happen.
This is what the experiment looked like after a week in the poly-tunnel.
After moving a pot in the poly-tunnel we discovered clusters of slug eggs - not really what you want to find in the poly-tunnel. The ducks came in very handy and quickly ate up all the eggs.
All the wet weather has produced some interesting specimens of fungi in the raised beds. We had an interesting discussion with the students about the dangers of fungi.
One of our students discovered a discarded tea pot, holes were punched into the bottom of the tea pot for drainage and bulbs were planted inside.
We also planted some bedding plants which hopefully will be ready for planting out in the spring. The plants will stay inside the poly-tunnel to give them a bit of warmth and protection from the wet, cold weather outside.
Sieving the compost for planting the seeds.
A new raised bed under construction.
A rare bit of sunshine in the garden this morning.
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