We were delighted to welcome another class from Robert Shaw Primary School to the allotment today. What was even better was that they came armed with a forest of scarecrows of all kinds, even though they had only promised to bring 2!
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| Scarecrows Galore! |
The allotment now has enough scarecrows to worry even our street-wise pigeons, and a few of them have even made us jump already.
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| The Scarecrows start their work |
After the class had had a chance to look around the allotment, we split them into groups to form 2 weeding teams and 2 work teams. One work team planted in the polytunnel with Tracey, whilst the other helped to create another builder's bag bed with Matt, and we swapped the weeders and workers around halfway through the session.
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| Philippa helps one of the weeding teams to get started. |
The weeders did a fantastic job with the help of regular volunteers Philippa and Chris, and managed to dig up some amazingly long roots. The planting team put in some tomato plants and a melon seedling for us, using a method designed to help reduce the need for watering, whilst the bag-bed team cleared a site and then dug out compost to fill the bag.
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| Planting a tomato the "Windmill Way" |
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| Digging up the compost for the bag bed |
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| A completed bag bed |
Thank you to the whole class for all their hardwork, and we look forward to seeing another class from Robert Shaw when the time comes to harvest the tomatoes.
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