May in the Garden After Lockdown

Due to the COVID restrictions we have had to come up with another way to run garden club (as we have high numbers of kids in the club). We have had to spilt the kids into groups of 10, with groups running on odd or even weeks depending on their class numbers.

Despite these adjustments it has been so lovely seeing the children back working in the gardens. Their happy voices around the school have been so lovely to hear.

On our return to the school we didn’t expect to see any plants in the garden since they had been left to themselves during the seven weeks of Level 3 and 4 lockdown, but look what we returned to! Beds full of vegetables and plants! Mother Nature definitely knows what she is doing :)

We got busy weeding and planting out more vegetables, checking on the worms and spreading the worm juice around the school. The citrus grove is being removed so we started moving the plants and soil around the school. The butterfly garden group realised that some of the plants being removed from the citrus grove are perfect for butterflies, so they re-planted them in their gardens. The wicking bed group started the “smoothie” garden, planting out spinach, kale and strawberries.