Autumn is here
Autumn is here Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.- Stanley Horowitz

Its been a long time since the last blog entry but that does not mean we haven't been busy. The garden thrived and grew during one of the wettest summers on record , and when we returned to school in September the garden was looking lush. We were very successful with our broad beans this summer and the one plant yielded at least 3pounds of the sweetest tasting beans.We are in the process of cutting every thing back for the winter, the hanging baskets are coming to an end and the vegetables have all been harvested except for the odd Kohl Rabi.

What next?

Well absolutely fantastic news we have received a wonderful donation of £1000 pounds from Mrs Joyce Turner

THANK YOU VERY MUCH

The thousand pounds will be spent most wisely and we will now be able to buy furniture for the library light well and think about building some raised beds for our proposed allotment.We had a meeting with the gardening club to announce the news and the children came up with some fantastic ideas as to how we could use the money one main idea which was very popular included a water feature, anyway we will think long and hard as to how best spend the money and what will benefit the school most.A thousand pounds will go along way as Mrs Tansey and I are very frugal shoppers and are regulars at Aldi and Lidl.

At the moment we are busy planting winter flowers and taking cuttings off geraniums.

This Friday we planted a lot of Hyacinth bulbs for the spring and stored them away to do what bulbs do over the winter

UPCOMING EVENTS

We are thinking of having an evening get together which will include mince pies and hot mulled wine and hopefully a Christmas wreath making demonstration we will announce this as soon as we have finalised plans.

Exciting plans

A close friend of mine lives and works in Lesotho in South Africa , he works in a small community and he is involved in a project that supports communities in sub-Saharan Africa facing the devastation of the HIV/AIDS pandemic.. identifying and supporting sustainable, community led projects that address health, education, food security and promote economic self-reliance.

One of the projects is called "Gardens of Hope"

The Gardens of Hope project is designed to link five communities in Lesotho, southern Africa, into a network of projects that share ideas, skills, resources and common purpose while supporting the educational needs of orphaned and vulnerable children.We are in touch with Gary and thought it would be wonderful if we could forge a link with one of these projects enabling our young gardeners to get to know some children from a very different part of the world but maybe to find some common ground and interests, and to find out what gardening means to these children . This plan is in the early stages but we will update when we have made some connections.

Gary and some of the Children in Lesotho