Thanks to Ellon Timber and Wilkie Engineering Ltd

This week we have two firms to thank:

Ellon Timber have donated a 50m roll of water pipe which we plan to cut and bend over the raised beds to support protective netting above our crops.

Wilkie Engineering Ltd based in Newburgh have pledged steel rod that we hope to bend into shape to create plant supports.
Thank you to both companies - without such generous support, the garden would simply not exist in its current form!

Swede and kale ready to protect from cabbage white butterflies!

As our plants grow taller, they will need staking to stop them falling in the wind

In other news, folk from Ellon Resource Centre have started to come to help us look after the garden once a week.

P7 pupils have been mulching crops to prevent weeds

We collected shredded bark from the county roads depot so thank you to them too!

The potatoes have come on really well...

...as have the carrots (pots in the foreground here) which are ready to thin out.

At the other end of the garden, Euan strimmed the grass in preparation for laying a new plastic turf protection to create a wheel-chair friendly path.  The S3 Grow and Learn class raked up the grass. 

Euan also taught some other pupils to lay paving slabs.  We eagerly await the result of the Tesco public vote to see how much more funding we will be awarded for our polytunnel classroom.  If we get enough, we should be able to continue path building around the garden too so fingers crossed!

Meanwhile in the polytunnel, plants have all been coming on.  Hanging baskets have been collected by staff as the term comes to an end.