Activities for week ending 15.11.2013

N.Bheaga

Polytunnel:

• Sowed garlic.

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Our bed before we started working on it

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Packet of Pink Germidour garlic

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Outside:

Leaba Gréine

• Did a bit of weeding and spotted worms in our plot.
• Planted red and white Cyclamen.
  
  
  

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N. Mhora

Polytunnel:

• Did digging and weeding in the bed.
• Topped up soil!
• Found worms.
• Sowed microgreens.

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We badly needed to top up our bed with soil

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Outside:

Leaba Gréine

• Sowed Allium flower bulbs 

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Rang a 1

Polytunnel:

• Did digging and weeding in the bed.
• Sowed onion sets variety Radar.

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Packet of onions sets variety Radar

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Onion sets peeping out in rows 20cm apart

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Rang a 1 blackboard showing what's planted in the first quarter of the bed

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Outside:

Leaba Gréine

• Did digging and weeding.
• Sowed mixed bulbs.

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Rang a 2

Polytunnel:

• Did a bit of weeding.
• Had fun.

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Our bed inside the polytunnel

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Outside:

Leaba Gréine

• Cleaned our sunbed.
• Got topsoil.
• Had fun.

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Rang a 3

Polytunnel:

• Sowed tulips and onions.

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Topping up with soil in progress

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Outside:

Leaba Gréine

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Rang a 4

Polytunnel:

• Sowed tulips and daffodils

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Successful digging and weeding

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Outside:

Leaba Gréine

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Rang a 5

Polytunnel:

• Did weeding.
• Topped up soil.
• Sowed red onions.

Outside:

Leaba Gréine

Compost bins

• Moved compost.
• Moved fresh soil into polytunnel bed.

 

 

 

Back to school... Autum 2013

Hi there,

There were no posts to this blog over the summer due to school holidays.  That's not to say that there wasn't anything going on in the garden.  The rest of this post outlines some of what was going on over the summer and work since school resumed.

Summer Pumpkins Project

A small group volunteered to sow some pumpkins and water them regularly.  These grew and grew and grew and grew and grew! while the rest of the school was enjoying the summer sunshine. Unfortunately quiet a few were damaged by intruders just as they reached maturity.  Luckily, some survived and these are still ripening in the school, they will be used for Halloween activities.  I'll try to get some pictures of these

Work since the return to school.

1. Harvesting of  tomatoes and pumpkins by gardening volunteers.  
2. Some outside beds have been weeded by students
3. Dead plants have been removed by students
4. All the polytunnel beds have been dug over  and weeded by students.  (Some need a top up with fresh soil/compost)
5. Sunflower seeds have been collected from this years flowers.
6. A general clean up of the polytunnel has taken place
7. Six small signboards were made by garden volunteers from scrap, and painted with blackboard paint. One is fixed to each polytunnel bed.  These will be used to identify the class(es) using each bed and what is growing and/or planted there.
8. A Local Agenda 21 Partnership Fund 2013 grant application has been submitted to  North Tipperary County Council

Some May Photos...

Some photos below showing state of the garden in May 2013...

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Rhubarb settling in to its' new home the foreground

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Some tulips

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 Rockery following some weeding by Rang 4

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 New Potting Bench

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 Courgettes in the black rectangular trays

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 Spuds! / Prátaí  !!

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 Lettuce / Leitís

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French Marigold flowers in the bed.