The Patch

13th June 2005

It's Filling Up

The Garden is growing ever greener. We have just about filled the garden with plants and all they have to do now is grow in to the space we have given them.

New Gloves In Use

We spent some of our money on new gloves (thank you Mrs I. for bringing these in). We still have to buy more though as when a big crowd go outside to help, we still have to borrow some gloves from Mrs M.'s Green Club.

Do you remember that pile of pondweed Mrs S. dragged out from the pond? (See The Pond 09 06 05), well we thought it would be a great idea to use it as compost for our vegetable patch. We needed the gloves!

Weeding The Beans

After filling a bucket with pondweed, we took it to the veg patch and spread it around the Runner Beans. They have a lot of growing to do this year so they will need all the food and help they can get.

A Useful Mulch

We will need to dig the pondweed in, but for now it can stay on top of the soil. This will help to cover the surface and stop any new weeds from growing through it. Layers like these are called mulches, and they help to stop weeds groing and keep water in the soil.

Get Stuck In!

Some of the money we raised was spent on new trowels. The Honesty has grown into a forest and the new trowels allowed an army of weeders to go in to the garden to dig them out of the soil. They have a ruler on them so we can measure how deep we are planting our plants and seeds.

Devastation!

In just a short time, the army of weeders had cleared away a lot of the Honesty. The plants that have been taken out will be left on the soil to dry out and then we can dig them back in. If we get out too many, we'll take them to the compost heap.

Ouch!

With so many people on a small patch of ground, something was going to get hurt. Luckily, all the garden volunteers are sensible so it wasn't them, but this poor spinach plant suffered being trodden on a couple of times. It was lucky it didn't get in the way of the volunteers' trowels!

Teriffic Tagetes

These bedding plants came in from Mrs I., who generously gave them to be sold on for the Gardening Club to raise more money. She grew them all from seed at home and they've grown in to fantastic young plants.

Perfect Petunias

She bought a lot of petunias in as well. If anyone is interested in buying any of these plants, please pop in and ask Mr C. about them. Be quick, as a lot of them have either gone or will be going soon.

Yellow Wonders

We have colours for every garden. You need yellow, we have yellow. These would add a bright touch to any garden.