What did SUNNY TEAM do on Monday 3rd November 2014?

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...

Raspberries!

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.

We talked about SAFETY with our teacher.

He gave us our name: SUNNY TEAM!

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 bright-coloured like the sun: yellow and gold, orange and red.

We picked up the litter on our garden plot and threw it in the rubbish bin.

We measured our garden plot using the gardening lines.

Measuring the plot

We marked our plot.

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!

The Head Gardener used the rototiller to turn over the soil (1m x 3m) to mark the separation between our plot and MOONY TROOP’s plot (the other GARDEN CLUB team is called MOONY TROOP).

A rototiller

The Head Gardener showed us how to plant rhubarb.

We planted the rhubarb in the soil that he had plowed.

A rhubarb plant has very big, fat, roots.

We had to dig a hole about 30cm deep and 30cm wide, place all the roots into the hole, then carefully fill up the hole around the roots with earth.

Only the short stem of the plant must stick out of the soil.

Rhubarb plant

We planted seven rhubarb plants, one for each member of the team.

Rhubarb grows very big!

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

We said thank you and goodbye to our teacher, Mr Nettleship, and to the Head Gardener, Mr Carlos.

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

All of us must remember to bring our gardening kit!