Growing our garden

Hello everyone,

We started a project which we are really excited to share with you.

It´s about our beloved garden which we feel needs more attention.

IN OCTOBER:

Last October we started working in our school garden.

As you know, our garden has been resting for a while and now it´s time to awaken it.

We are going to tell you what we have done with it.

In October we have been waiting for the rain to come. The eco- school told us that we have to dig the ground to get fresh air for the plants, and the best time to do it is when the ground is wet, making it easier to dig.

After doing that, we have cleaned the garden. We saw the soil that was in perfect condition and it had all the nutrients necessary to plant.

Here we are cleaning the garden and digging the ground:

Our garden is separated in five different squares.
 In the first square starting from your left, we planted raddish, carrots and peas.
The way to plant carrots and raddish is by spreading out the seeds. Then you will have to cover the seeds with soil using the rake, as you can see in this picture.

To ensure getting a pea plant, you will have to put two seeds.
Here, we are planting peas:

Look at the white seed peas, can you see them?

 In the second square starting from your left, we transplanted cabbages and red cabbages.
 In this case, we did grooves in the ground, this is an appropriate technique to water your garden by dripping 

The way to transplant cabbages and red cabbages is by making holes at the top part in the grooves using a green tool to make the holes. After doing this, you will have to pressure the ground softly with your hands, making sure the little plant has got support, as you can see in the picture above.

 

 And this is how we finish our groove cabbage square, isn't it nice?

                                

When we finish planting in the first square, we start to plant strawberries.
Here, we are digging the ground while mixing the complust to prepare it to accomodate the plantation of the strawberries:

The strawberry is a fruit that reproduces asexually, which means it reproduces by itself.
This part of the plant shown in the picture below represents the stolom of the plant. When it leans on the ground it will create new strawberry plants.

This is all that we have done in our garden, we look forward to nurturing it and we will keep you posted as to what we plan on doing.

I hope you have enjoyed this experience as much as we did,

Ana