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We are a gardening club at Lauriston Primary School in Hackney, East London

Monday, February 25, 2013

Forced salad leaves and bird boxes

Our first gardening club after half term - welcome to all our new members! 


We checked on the chicory, dandelion and other salad leaves we had planted before the holiday and left in the cupboard and lo and behold....


This kind of growing is called 'forcing'. We'll leave them for a bit longer before we can cut them and eat them in a delicious salad. 

Today we were also talking about birds and why they are good for the garden. We had a look around the garden to get inspiration for decorating cardboard birdboxes we have made from kits. 





We looked at some pictures of other birdboxes and then designed our own patterns and shapes.

We made up the kits - we'll decorate them with our designs next week.

It's still quite cold in the garden - we took the temperature from the thermometer at 6.1C and made a note on the chart.




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