This week, Ellon Rotary gave a cheque for £250 to help us develop the garden further. A huge thank you for your support folks - it is much appreciated!
From left to right: pupils Micheal Hughson and Adam Webster, teacher Tom Richardson, Rotary member Hilary Gordon and teacher Susan Swallow.
Despite wintry weather, work has continued. Here, Liz builds the path inside the fruit cage.
She taught Euan to lay the slabs...
...and he got cracking right away!
He has done fantastic work...
...and is on target to complete this length of path himself!
Euan and Mrs Russell have also shifted half a tonne of granite gravel into a new seating area.
We rescued a bed frame and are using it to for the blackberry to grow up.
All the fruit trees and bushes have been mulched with a thick layer of shredded branches.
This will keep out light so weeds cannot grow, keep moisture in so the bush won't dry out and thirdly the worms will work it down into the ground to improve the structure of our soil 😄
Our seed potatoes were desperate to go into the ground...
...so we filled a raised bed with "Orla" and "Salad Blue".
We put other varieties into bags...
...and stood them beside the poly-tunnel.
An extra little helper chatted with Kiera while they worked!
Snow didn't put us off - there was plenty to do in the poly-tunnel!
Classes have been busy - plug plants arrived so we are potting them on. When they are bigger, we will put them into hanging baskets.
Jacob put shelving together to hold more seed trays.
We have started sowing both flower and vegetable seeds.
Snow provided the perfect opportunity to clean the outside of the poly-tunnel!
We put up pea-frames...
... and wigwams ready for planting out our seedlings.
Jacob and Lewis planted out their climbing beans...
...as did Darren and Dougal.
We sowed carrot seeds outside - some will grow into purple carrots!
We also put a step-down tap onto the big water tank so now it is more controllable! The hose makes it easier to fill watering cans.
Finally, we had several more unusual visitors to the garden area this week - this pheasant...
a duck...
and a baby rabbit...
...we are keeping an eye on a burrow which has been dug into the bank. It could come under our rabbit fence eek! We may have to lay wire all along the steep bank.
