Rocket Science Experiment Launched!!

Fergus Coutie (S1) and Megan Roger (S6)

On Wednesday 20th April, members of the Science Club sowed Rocket Salad seeds.  They have been sent two packs from the Royal Horticultural Society.  One pack was taken into space with astronaut Tim Peake and has been orbiting Earth in the International Space Station.  The other pack has remained on Earth.  Crucially, we don't know which is which!

The club will monitor the two sets of seedlings as they germinate and grow and feed the results into a national experiment to help scientists learn how to best grow food in space.

We feel privileged and excited to be part of such an exciting experiment - watch this space for news as the rocket seeds emerge!

Each seed is labelled and the trays were randomised before placing on the windowsill 

Kieran brings the water butts over to the garden

In other news, guttering has arrived for the garden shed.  

We have managed to fit it along with water butts so next time it rains we will have water "on tap" for the garden - yay!

Chelsay and Rachel have cut a length of rabbit wire and fixed it to posts to create a leaf-mold pile as part of our School Compost Challenge.

This will be erected at the front of the site where we hope to create a mini "spring woodland garden" around it.

The EAGer bunch also worked hard on Friday generally tidying the site.  We picked up litter, chopped some dead plants into the compost bin and cleared the poly-tunnel site of any extra bricks or wood lying around.  Well done Sophie!