Slugging it out

During the very hot weather this week we have been looking after our little seedlings very carefully. We have been making sure they get enough water and because they are still quite vulnerable we have been 'putting the seedlings to bed every night' with fleece and poly covers.

L6B sketching in the Potager Garden

On Wednesday the pupils spotted our first slug - which was closely followed by two more sightings at breaktime!  As our Potager Garden is organic we are not using any pesticides.  On Mr Crawford's advice we put copper wire around the raised beds to deter the slugs:  apparently they don't like copper. This seems to have done the trick as we haven't seen anymore slugs this week and there are no bite marks on our vegetables. Hurray! 

The pupils have also been taking advantage of the fine weather and nearly all art classes have been outside sketching and painting in the Garden.

Duncan painted one of the raised beds

It is amazing to see how quickly our seedlings are growing. Some have produced small flowers in just one week. Forms 1R and 1S have been busy collecting information and photographs for their Garden Journals as well as preparing traditional wooden plant labels for the garden to replace the modern plastic ones we have at present.

Lets hope for more fine weather next week!