Wednesday 20th August 2014

Blog post by Justine with photo support from Grace B.

Another overcast day in the garden today but that didn't stop us digging for buried treasure.  Today we harvested our crop of potatoes - always a favourite activity for the children.  We dug up over 50 medium to large potatoes and lots of little ones.  Anija and Evie did some great maths working out how many potatoes each garden club member could eat as well as coming up with some good recipe ideas for using the potatoes next week during our cooking session.  Chips and wedges were very popular suggestions.

 Along with our potatoes we also had an excellent crop of worms.  The soil in the potato garden was dark and rich looking and crumbles well between your fingers so it is obviously a good place for worms and good soil for growing vegetables.

 Our final job for the day was to give the play garden a tidy up.  The children pulled out the weeds, added some fresh soil and rearranged the toys so that the garden now looks inviting to play in once again.