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

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Herb Butters


Today we had a very special guest in Gardening Club. Our wonderful school cook Sheila came to look at our herb garden and talk about ways we can use herbs in the kitchen.




 


















We picked some herbs from the school garden and drew them in our garden journals. 


We used the herbs to make herb butters - when you spread herb butter on bread it gives a bit of the herb's flavour. It's delicious! 

When you've picked the herbs and washed them, you can either chop them with a knife or cut them up with scissors.





Then, using a fork you  mash the herbs into some butter. 



We made four different kinds of herb butter, chive, tarragon, rosemary and dill. 



They were all delicious! 






Tuesday, May 12, 2015

(Beet)roots and shoots

We're getting ready for next weekend's Chelsea Fringe event - the school garden will be open to visitors, we're selling cakes and strawberry plants that we have grown….and we're going to do some garden arts and crafts. 


Jojo's sister Katherine brought in some printing stamps of flowers, leaves and stalks that she had made. 
We used coloured inks to print with them and colour in the pictures. 




Meanwhile our beetroot seeds had sprouted and we needed to 'prick them out' - separate the little seedlings and plant them in the vegetable beds. 


The seedlings were growing quite close together, we had to really carefully separate them and plant them out in the beds, giving them enough room for their roots to grow. 




Then we gently watered them in their new homes.