Here come the girls.. with carrots

The gardening club at school is back in full swing as you can see from the excitment from pulling and showing off the carrots, through the window! The seeds were planted more in hope than expectation at the beginning of July and they have produced some really nice specimens, as well as the funny multistemmed ones; proving to the children that gardening is fun as well as tasty.

The peas produced a  few more pods as did the beans.  The peas are almost at the end and I am not sure how much longers the beans will keep going.

The pumpkins are swelling, so far the slugs havent noticed; but we are not sure if we planted green skinned varieties or if they just havent ripened yet.  Chances are with this weather the pumpkins will keep swelling; but not so confident about any colour change.

Star parent, Charlie Ratcliffe of Warwick New Gardens has offered to put down weed supressing membrane for the floor of the polytunnel, if we can clear the weeds from there.  It will be a huge benefit to have the right sort of flooring in there, and all we have to do is clear the weeds and bark, which at the moment feels like a big task.

Happy Gardening !