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Meryem’s Report.

The Gardening Club is very excited about winning the Sensory Garden Competition organised by Plants4life.  The Blue Peter gardener is coming to Garnetbank Primary School in May to build our sensory garden. He is bringing a scarecrow and we are going to have hanging baskets, a bee hotel, a ladybird house and a birdhouse.

Sonny’s Report.

Every Thursday at 10.45 after the morning break, the Gardening Club collect all the recycling bins in our school.  We then empty them into the bins at the main entrance, each person has their own bin which they collect and bring down to the bottom hall. 

Huda’s Report

When I found out I could go to the garden club I joined straight away.  The first day I went we were planting potatoes something I have never done before.  I can’t wait to plant even more things and to enter the garden club sunflower competition.

Potato growing competiton

The Garden Club are having a potato growing competition with Primary 2.  Here is a photo of Poppy in Primary 2 planting some of their potatoes.  Some of the children in P2 have written about planting potatoes.

Tom’s Report

You’ve got to open the compost and the compost in a plant pot.  Make a hole, put the potato in the hole.  But before you do that you’ve got to chit them, that means you’ve got to leave them on a windowsill for 2 weeks.  That is how you grow your potato.

Haythem’s Report.

We planted them in the soil, then we watered them.

Sophia’s Report

First open the compost, then find a pot and put it in.  Next put in the potatoes.  Third water your potatoes.  That’s how to plant potatoes.

Thomas’s Report

We have been busy planting seeds at Garden Club.  The easiest seeds to grow seem to be cornflowers which come up really quickly.  The trickiest seeds to grow are tomatoes and strawberries.  We think the garden club area is too cold for them to start growing, but hope that when we come back after the Spring holiday they will have started to grow.

Sunflower competition

We are running a sunflower competition again this year at school.  It costs 50p to enter and a £1 for teachers.  You get a plant pot, some compost and two seeds plus a free magnet which has the Garden club website address on it for some extra help growing sunflowers.  The tallest sunflower when the competition ends at the beginning of September will win a £5 WH Smith’s voucher.

We have some new members of the Garden Club in Primary 7 who are keen to write in the newsletter next month! Look out for their thoughts on the Garden Club coming soon.