Thursday 29^th September 2016

The Allotment Project

 

As the autumn starts to peep around the corner, it is time for us to start digging and begin work on creating our allotment plot! Of course if you look back in our blog you will see that we started to dig the plot over in July….but just look at what happened over the summer!! Goes to show what a warm September can do for plant growth…and weeds!!

 

 

 

 

All of class 4 worked so hard to dig over the plot.

We found lots of mini-beasts along the way and it was wonderful how there were so many comments on the root systems of the plants we were unearthing. We had to work out which strategy would be best for digging up which weeds! We didn’t like the tap roots or the runners particularly. A lovely, hands on way to learn a science thread and put it into context.

 

By the end of the day we had managed to clear a good proportion of the plot. I think we have about the same again to unearth and then we can start designing our allotment to keep it as maintenance free as possible.