Last week we spent some time thinking about how to get the apples out of our big playground apple tree.
This week we tried out an apple picker with a 4 metre long telescopic handle (that means it shuts up inside itself like a telescope so you can carry it around more easily). It has a soft pouch at the end, with some grabbing claws on it. We had great fun picking the apples with it. The ones we didn't eat we're going to give to the school kitchen to make apple pie or chutney. Yummy!
Meanwhile in the orchard some of our new little heritage apple trees have fruited!
We tasted some different varieties of apple and decided which ones we liked best. We recorded our favourite in our gardening books and drew some pictures of different varieties.
On the wall of our potting shed is a new special plaque. We are very proud to have won Best Food Growing Project or Enterprise in the Hackney in Bloom awards for the second year running!
