Keeping Growing

At this time of year the garden needs even more looking after than usual. It's important to keep an eye on the crops to make sure you will get the best from them at harvest time.

Our first task this week was to give the garden a good soaking. Luckily gardening club is after school so it's after the hottest sun of the day. It's better to water when it's cooler so the water doesn't immediately evaporate. Also it's good to try to water at the base of the stem of the plant so the water goes to the roots where it's needed. 

 


 We've also been keeping an eye on our compost heap - we make sure our apple cores and banana skins from fruit time go into the compost bin.  That way we can make sure we have plenty of compost to feed the soil for next years' crops.

 Last but not least we are keeping an eye on the fruit and vegetable plants. This week we learnt how to pinch out tomato plants - that means snapping or "pinching" off extra shoots that grow in between the main stalk and the side shoots. We want to make sure the plants' efforts go into producing tomatoes, not too many shoots and leaves.