The Gardening Club members planted lots of seeds in the dining hall, as it was very, very wet! They planted 5 types of tomatoes, 2 types of cabbage, sprouts, sunflowers, sweetpeas and godetia. Once they had cleaned the tables and brushed the floor they completed a minibeast word scramble and had a hilarious time discussing the various minibeasts. Fingers crossed for better weather next week.
The Gardening Club members took all the seeds out of the dried sunflowers, cleaned them up and packed them in envelopes with special labels to sell at the Christmas Fayre and elsewhere. These will raise funds for next year's club. We packed over 230 envelopes with at least 12 seeds in each!
The Gardening Club members had a plant search and found out lots of interesting things about trees and shrubs in their local environment.
Today the Gardening Club members started to make rowan and apple jelly. They put all the rowans, stalks and all, along with chopped up apples into water and boiled till the fruit went pulpy.
Then they strained it through a ‘jeelie’ bag overnight. They had to build
a wee castle of books to get the stick high enough so the bag didn't dip into
the strained juice. The next morning they added sugar and boiled it till it
set. Then they poured it into jars with their own design of label.
The grown ups took the sunflower heads and tied them up to dry in the
polytunnel and picked lots of tomatoes which they took home.
The potatoes are still drying off in the polytunnel ready for making soup in
January.
The Gardening Club members picked lots of beans, tidied up some of the raised beds, brought the strawberry runners which had rooted into the polytunnel and picked more raspberries. They got to take beans, tomatoes, cucumbers and cabbage home to share and enjoy.
The
Gardening Club members made their second batch of jelly this term.
A few weeks ago they made blackcurrant jelly, which was just delicious on
toast! Today they made apple and Rowan berry jelly.
What a sweet treat, with all fruits grown in our school grounds.
A huge thank you to Mrs Morrison for sharing her jelly making talents.
