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Garden organic
Garden Organic works with Master Composters in Buckinghamshire, Enfield, Norfolk, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, Suffolk, Warwickshire and Worcestershire & Herefordshire. Master Composters are volunteers who encourage people in their local community to start composting, and offer support to people who are already home composting and may be having difficulties or need encouragement. Some of these volunteers work with schools. If you would like to find out if there is a Master Composter near you, in one of the areas above, that could help with your composting then contact Jane Griffiths
Maidwell Primary School, Northamptonshire
The Maidwell Moles Gardening Club is now up and running. The children are very keen to help out and we hope that there will be some crops ready to harvest before the summer holiday starts. Any tips on keeping rabbits and slugs off our plants would be appreciated!
Reply from Mick, the gardening tutor at Caslon Primary School
In reply to the question how to keep slugs and snails off your plants, go to your local coffee shop and ask them to keep the spent coffee grounds for you, slugs and snails hate it, it is also a good activator for the compost heap, plus a good top dressing for the soil.
Don't forget to try the Vegetable Quiz!
If you have recently joined the Garden Organic for Schools project you will have been sent a password to access the on-line Vegetable Quiz.
You'll find the Vegetable Quiz login page here. Give it a go!
Mile Oak Moles after school club members Mile Oak Primary School, Brighton.
Thanks to all the teachers, parents and grandparents who came to the Big Dig 2. We did tons of work. The ponds almost finished and the hedge we planted is going to grow really well.
Thomas Gwilliam (and friends) Wrenthorpe primary school
We would like to thank all the children and adults for all thier help digging the hole for our new wildlife pond in our wildlife area. We are hopeing that the frogs and toads the pond will attract will eat some of the little pests that are eating our vegatables. It was hard work but worth it.
From Laeticia Muller, Outreach Co-ordinator at Shoeburyness High School
A warm word of thanks to all the pupils and staff who helped to clean out our Environment Centre. Together each achieves more! (TEAM)
We are in the process of reorganizing our Environment Centre and hope to use it much more not only through our Outreach Programme to primary schools, but also on home turf! We are looking forward to using all our new data logging equipment next summer.
Is there perhaps any advice on how to help our feathered friends going through this coming winter?
We would also like to invite other educational institutions to drop us a line or letter to share and interact through Science.
From Mr McKay at Gordano School, Somerset
"The potatoes you sent to us went really well and produced really clean and quite heavy crops. The heritage peas sadly were a bit of a disaster everything else, conditions etc, were ok but all but one failed to germinate.
Heritage tomatoes went wild!! Especially the texas wild!! Grown inside the greenhouse we were in danger of them completely taking over. Outside they spread so rapidly real stopping off had to be done but, Oh the taste of those little berries the best ever!! Thanks for the Seed.
Question submitted by Network member
Q: Can you suggest why our runner beans have died?A: Pests such as slugs, snails, mice and bean weevils can all damage bean seeds and seedlings. Once seeds start to take in water they become soft and vulnerable to pest damage.
Water-logging can cause seeds to rot. Frosts kill tender seedlings, turning new growth black. Clay soils are particularly prone, with a tendency to experience early and late frosts. To avoid this, it is best to plant seeds in pots and modules first and plant out once the danger of frosts has passed.
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