Raised beds ready and going

We are having a really busy week in our garden because at last we found free soil to fill up our raised beds.
Understanding that our budget is £0, we depends on donations and every opportunity that we find around the Bristol area. This time, we found free soil through Gumtree so we could plant out all our seedlings that have been growing in the green house for months.
With the adults help the children fill up the beds using rakes and spades and a shopping trolly as a working tools. Carrying, raking and stomping the soil in the planters.

Planting Peas. Using tools, being careful with the plants, following instructions and taking turns.

 Planting butternut squash

And tomatoes

 

Here we are, working together to get the other planters ready where we could grow potatoes, beetroots and leeks.

 They are great gardeners.

Donations!! We want to thank you.

We have had some donations from people from the community that we want to thanks. Tools, plants, pots and seeds that we really need and we appreciate. Hopefully this contact with the community will continue growing stronger each day.

Also the Aldi at Church Road, contributed with our project by donating a big amount of flowers that we share between the provisions of Knowle West Children's Centre but also with other projects like the Springfield allotments and the Local officer for the front garden completion that is going on around The Knowle area.

To get our share planted, we called out for help to our parents.

ALDI at Church Road big donation. 

 

Parents has come to help us platting.

They are doing great in our front!

Autumn

It is a quiet time in our garden in terms of doing jobs but we still keep ourselves busy by collecting seeds from our garden flowers but also collecting the potatoes that we sowed at the beginning of September. We had to collect them earlier than planned because we haven't found an organic solution to avoid the slugs and snails eating our harvest. However we collected a few dozen new potatoes so hopefully we will be able to eat them in a potato salad or keep them to replant in the future.

On a separate note, we have exciting news in that we have been awarded Level One in the RHS School Gardening Awards! So what does this mean for our project? Well, it means that we will get support and guidance to convert our garden into a successful learning resource. So by following their guidelines and proving to them our achievements, we aim to reach Level 5 in the future....watch this space!!

Level 1 Certificate

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