January 2019

Review of 2018 Growing Season

 

What a busy year it was in the garden! The year started with the challenge from ‘The Beast from the East’. It took quite a while for the soil to warm up and allow us to plant our crops. Then followed ‘The great drought of 2019’…another set of challenges as we tried to make sure our plants had enough water to grow. It did make us think how ‘climate change’ might alter the way we look after our garden.

Another goodbye in 2018 was to the allotment. We had thoroughly enjoyed our time there and had turned it into a good growing space. However we decided that it was time to focus our energies and resources on our own school plot…working together to create new growing areas and a greenhouse.

2018 proved to be another highly successful year for the ‘Vegetables R Us’ team. Altogether we made £283.96 profit and the new team we have in place worked wonderfully together….quickly taking on their new roles and responsibilities within the team.

Now the growing season has ended and we look towards the future and how best to spend our profits on growing our business still further!