Wednesday 5^th July

 

The Great Wenhaston Harvest!

Well what an exciting few weeks it has been with the garden project! Several of the children had replies to their letters asking for support. Jessica had an amazing response from Fiskars who sent the pupils a whole array of rakes, brushes and spades in the liveliest of colours!

In class we continued to make the most of cross curricular links. Just before the harvest the children in class three counted their crop. With a little research online they found the prices of chard, lettuce and courgettes and were able to multiply (even using decimals!) to try and work out their profit.

Mr Fothergills seeds also sent us a seed pack and a seed catalogue for next year. The children in class 3 were able to practise their ‘data interpretation’ skills to work out exactly what we could grow on during the winter and how much it would cost to buy the seeds they needed. They also learned how to work out the area of our beds and how division could help us to find out how many crops we could grow…and hence which would be the best to plant!

Now the big day has arrived! Our lettuces, chard and courgettes look AMAZING! Everyone has worked so hard to look after them; keeping them watered when dry, side shooting, picking out the snails and slugs and even making scarecrows to deter the pigeons from nibbling!

Although the weather wasn’t great, we set to work carefully pulling up and cutting our produce, making sure not to damage them!

 



Here we are with Siobhan; discussing about a plan of action!




Wow! The tomatoes are beginning to form! In science we have learned all about pollination, now we can really see it as it happens!!

Phoebe and Frankie have just cut these beautiful Italian lettuces! We had to pack them quickly as in no time at all a plant without roots will start to wilt.

Siobhan is helping us to collect the harvest! Yet more science here as we have to INSULATE our box to keep the vegetables cool and crisp until they reach their destination!

We discovered that the stalk of the chard plant is edible in stir fries. Not only did we sell the leaves to Adnams, we sold the stalks too!

Ty...very proudly holding on to one of our amazing lettuces. Class 3 have done SO well to grow them so large and lush!

 

How many more lettuces do we have! WOW!!!



Here we are carefully trimming the roots. Adnams would like well presented vegetables!

 

All our lettuces fitted into one, giant, well insulated freezer box!



 

We carefully counted and c catalogued our produce. They were then carefully packed off in freezer boxes (we can do some science on insulation there!) and packed into Siobhan’s car. Their onwards journey will take them to an Adnams pub in Southwold where they will be prepared as fresh ingredients to feed the paying public. Our reward will be a payment into our ‘Garden project’ fund and a first sale for ‘Vegetables R us’! Well done to all the pupils who have put in SO much effort to produce our first crop….now we start all over again….watch this space!



Finally into the car and off to 'The Crown' in Southwold!