As our tribute to the Olympic games the gardening club at school have planted the rings. We used old tyres and laid them out in the shape of the Olympic rings and have planted up the centres with
Blue Lobelia
Purple Basil (its nearly black)
Red Begonias and a geranium, Yellow marigolds (not yet in flower) and Green spinach
To make life easier and to minimise any issues of contamination from the tyres to the plants we simply used 5 bags of compost, and planted in the compost bag in the tyres. Getting the tyres and compost in place
By rolling down the tops of the compost bags we were able to fit the compost to the tyres. We broke up any lumps in the compost so it was ready for planting, then smoothed and firmed the top
Planting the lobelias to make the blue ring, we managed to find a blue tyre for this ring.
Planting the red tyre with the geranium and begonias
Now its all done, it looks like this and hopefully the foliage and flowers will prosper together to make our tribute to London 2012
Our Olympic Garden
In the vegetable plot, we have started planting the spare spinach and marigolds to make a display, more on this next week, when I hope some of the classes will have begun to plant their plots too.
The Ferncumbe Garden 