What a busy day we have had at the allotment! We began our day by clearing back some of the weeds in our orchard area. We spotted lots of fruit growing including plums and apples. Joseph helped to put a stake into the ground which was used to support one of our plum trees. This is our first year of growing plums successfully so as you can imagine we are very excited!

We have started the process of moving all of our flowers and plants from our greenhouse to the poly tunnel to make room for all of our tomato plants. They are growing very big and we are looking forward to sampling them. There is nothing quite as delicious as homegrown tomatoes. We did find a little visitor in our greenhouse who was happily hopping about as we worked. A huge frog! Unfortunately we had to relocate him to a safer area whilst we worked. He didn't mind and went hopping off to the pond.

After a drink and a snack it was time to finish moving the old compost bins to our brand new ones. The children (and staff) worked tirelessly to move wheelbarrows full of compost and weeds. The area was then raked flat and is now ready for all of our new beds to go in. How exciting!

Around the allotment the children separated off into small groups. Some chose to help weed the beds while others transported old plants to our compost bins. Some children chose to help carry our pots to their new home at the side of the greenhouse and others chilled happily in the shaded area of our fire pit chatting to their friends.

We stopped continuously for drinks and snacks throughout the day and checked our list of jobs, marking them off as we went. The children were amazed by our huge strawberries which we hope will be ready to eat next week. To protect them we built cages and covered them in nets.

The children all worked really hard and soon time had arrived for our tired and muddy faces to head back to nursery for a well earned rest.