Over the winter we planted a small orchard of heritage apple trees in a corner of the playground. Each tree was sponsored by parents of children at the school. As they're newly planted it's important to give them plenty of water, especially in this warmer weather.
We've got some small watering cans but they're still quite heavy to carry when they are full of water. It's good exercise taking two cans full for each tree across the playground!
It was good to have a chance to inspect the apple trees. We're trying to make sure all the children at the school know that we have to be careful when playing near the orchard. We don't want our lovely trees to be damaged. It was exciting to see they are coming into leaf.
Meanwhile there were still potatoes to be planted - we managed to dig up a couple that we planted last week! Never mind - we just put them back again and found another space in the beds. The signs we painted a few weeks ago are coming in handy - it's useful to know what we have planted where.
Inside some of us were having a go at printing a 'herbal' - a collection of pictures and descriptions of plants. We used beautiful printing blocks and coloured ink.
Then we coloured them in and gave them names. It's been a busy week at gardening club!
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