Jacob and Dougal have been very busy delivering tomatoes and grapes. A huge thank you to all those who support the garden by buying produce - folk have said how tasty it is.
As a sharp frost was forecast, we picked the rest of the grapes and tomatoes on Thursday and delivered them to the Kirk Centre to help feed local families. Nicola and Edith were very pleased to take them! They also told me that our green tomato chutney last year was treasured and went out to families in the Christmas Hampers. The senior boys agreed that it was a great way to share our fruit and veg 😊
It certainly was a great crop this year!
The junior hub pupils have enjoyed harvesting too (photos to follow in future once photo permissions are granted)
We have been selling weekly boxes to staff - which include potatoes, onions and garlic.
We also have new "EAGerBunch" members who come on a Friday lunchtime to help plant up the Memorial Garden. We have had our hands full since the summer holidays getting on top of weeds (an ongoing challenge!)
We took delivery of a metal rose arch...
...assembled it...
...and anchored it into position.
There is a white climbing rose on each side of the arch so in future we should be walking under colourful scented blooms!
Brodie is fab at weeding...
...and Scott is doing a brilliant job on the path!
Lucy and Peter get stuck in, planting spring bulbs in the orchard corner of the Memorial Garden.
We had good apples on the new trees this year...
The seniors made apple crumble along with grape ice cream...
...it was a delicious combination. Some lucky staff got to sample it too!
The meadow corner of the Memorial Garden has been looking good. We have timber ready and waiting to make tops on the gabion seats.
In other news, Dougal and Darren have been painting the shed,
others have mulched beds with our home-made compost,
and we have been collecting seeds from our sunflowers. We will keep some to sow next year and use others to make nutritious fat balls for the birds this winter.
Kenny who services the sprinkler system every week was happy to take one for his own garden 🌻
One of our new first years is also making us a plant display stand to keep our herbs on near the polytunnel - thank you Kody!
Some visitors to the garden last month.
