What did MOONY TROOP do on Monday 10th November?

ARDEN CLUB

This was our second visit to the Jardin de Marie.

Last time we just visited the garden, talked to the gardener (who gave us some beans with funny colours), and ate too many raspberries...

A HUGE raspberry!

We were very lucky because the weather was sunny and quite warm.

It had rained on and off all morning so the soil was damp.

We put on our gardening kit: rubber boots, aprons, gloves, and hats and took a group photo!

We talked about SAFETY with our teacher.

He gave us our name: MOONY TROOP!

We will design our team logo soon...

What will our LOGO look like?!

He said that the plants we will put in our garden will be magical like the moon: white and pink and blue and purple and violet and even pale yellow and orange.

We picked up the litter on our garden plot.

We measured our garden plot using the gardening lines.

Measuring the plot

We marked our plot. It is a BIG garden: 3m x 7m!

We used the big tools (leaf rake, rake, hoe, fork and spade) plus the wheelbarrow to start tidying the garden: get rid of leaves, weeds, bits of grass, plants and roots; turn over the soil to let it breathe and soak up the rain.

This was hard work!

We put all the organic matter in the new composter which is in the corner of our plot.

  

A composter just like ours

We transplanted a big rosemary bush. We will plant several more to make a hedge (with other plants like lavender, thyme, mint, chamomile, chives and box plants).

Our hedge will look like something like this!

We put away the tools and put our gardening kit in our bags.

We said thank you and goodbye to our teacher, Mr Nettleship.

Before we go back to the garden (in two weeks) we have to think about the plants we would like to put in our “moon” garden.

All of us must remember to bring our COMPLETE gardening kit!