Potato days, and other fruity stories

We've been digging up potatoes, and picking apples over last few weeks:

Apples and beans, blueberries too

Garden club back, starting on Thursday lunchtimes, weather permitting.

Some photos from last thursday:

Picking apples

Field for the Olympics and strawberries

A very productive day at stay & play and garden club.  We made a whole range of olympic junk puppets, and also puppets took part in story time and songs after.  We made up the story with the children, which (of course) ended on the olympic message, mate, 'It's more important to compete than to win'.

Strawberries are just turning red and juicy, and with a little weeding, lots of other fruit ripening nicely all over the garden.  Gardening tots also made Bob the Biker, the infamous pirate, among other Olympic puppets, as yet unnamed.  More puppet making tomorrow!

Garden Olympics

Introducing Harlafreyajago, the olympic runner.  Second of 'Field for the Olympics' workshops in Kings Heath Garden - first one was at Evergreen.

Also first of raspberries eaten today, and a little garden weeding.

Carwash

Painting with dandelions and planting french beans

More Potatoes and Dandelions

Finished planting the spuds, played with worms, a bit of weeding, all just before the rain.

Also cut board and started hand painting for shed refurb.

Planting Potatoes

Sunshine, sand and picnics

Great day in the glorious sunshine - watering plants, playing with water and muddy puddle, first sand castles, and cut back that ivy.

Tea Dance inside, picnic outside

Apple trees covered in blossom buds, after sycamore cut down last year

All aboard pirate ship

First sand castle

Garden day in Easter hols

We're inviting everyone into our garden to have some fun and some find out your ideas for how you want our garden to look.  There'll be a few family activities and an opportunity for some gardening.  Tea, coffee, biscuits provided.

KHCC Stay & Play will also be open as usual during the school holidays, Thursdays 10 to 12.

Mapping the garden

Our first attempt to map what's happened in the garden.  Please visit and update/edit any plans you have:


View Kings Heath Community Centre Garden in a larger map

More Willow

Planted more willow with children today.  Thanks Sarah for photos.

Willow planting season

Rain and other stuff, but still managed to plant more willow around the sandpit yesterday with Garden Tots.