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!
