Year 3 – Garden Project – Forest School

This afternoon, pupils in Year 3 have been busy in our school garden doing a variety of jobs. Over the Easter break, crops and weeds have grown so they either needed harvesting and removing. Pupils enjoyed being able to wash and eat some of the lettuce they have been growing over the winter as well as mulching and weeding the beds and paths. Pupils also finished rotating the Autumn leaves into the compost bins to create leaf mould compost and were amazed to find out it takes two whole years to break down into a crumbly compost to spread on the vegetable beds. With the fine, dry weather, children had to water some of the new fruit bushes and plants we have planted which include both Autumn and Summer raspberries, strawberries, redcurrants, gooseberries, blackcurrants and a jostaberry bush, which is a cross between a blackcurrant and gooseberry. There was also time to sow some seeds, including peas, spinach, lettuce and beetroot which we will transplant into the beds in around 4-5 weeks time.