Come and help on 7th February
- aka 'Digging with Davis'
With spring just around the corner things will soon be gearing up in the College Allotment. With the first plants due to go in the ground in late February the focus is on getting the raised beds constructed. (If anyone has any untreated sturdy wooden planks going spare, please let me know.)
Once done, we can begin improving the soil and get planting. To this end I have a rather strange list of things that I can find a use for over the growing season. Please rescue the following items from your rubbish over the next few months and send them in to me (in H21) instead!
• Toilet roll tubes for growing broad beans in
• Plant pots for rearing seedlings
• Lollipop sticks or similar to use as plant labels
• Old CDs to use as bird scarers
• Plastic bottles for rudimentary cloches
• Old carpet or tarpaulin that we can cover the ground/compost heap with
• Egg boxes for chitting potatoes
Plus, if you happen to have any of the following going spare, we’d love to give them a home to save us some money…
• A wheelbarrow
• Buckets
• Wellies
• Gloves
• Any gardening tools (especially trowels and spades)
• Seeds (vegetables and flowers)
• Spare seed potatoes or onion sets
• Spare seedlings
• Bamboo canes
• Spare compost, leaf mould, grass turves, etc
The next scheduled digging day, weather permitting, is Saturday 7th February (not the 8th as it says in the Newsletter) where we will be constructing our raised beds and filling them with soil and compost. I’ll be there from 12.30 getting everything ready. All helpers welcome – especially those with woodwork skills. I have some tools, but if parents want to bring hammers, drills, spades and forks that will be a help. Anyone with a big enough car to carry a wheelbarrow, please do so since I haven’t got one yet and we’ll have several tonnes of topsoil to move about the site!
Regular updates about the garden will be posted on the school website. Please check here for confirmation that the Saturday session is going ahead.
Mrs Davis
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