Room 4's Visit to the Garden

 

Room 4 visited our school garden to see how our plants are growing after the Easter holidays.

 

Our Marigolds are starting to grow.

Our Beanstalks are starting to grow too!

Nicole found a ladybird.

The herbs smelled really nice. We smelt lavender, sage, peppermint, lemon balm, oregano and mint!

We saw raspberries starting to grow on the raspberry plant.

 It has gotten very tall.

We watered our plants to help them grow. 

We used water from the water butt.

The Water butt collects rainwater.

Luscious Lettuce

In fourth class we are planting Lettuce in the school garden. We have three different varieties - Lollo Rosso, Oak leaf and Cos. Oak leaf and Lollo Rosso are coloured with a hint of red/brown on the leaves.
This is Lollo Rosso
This is an example of cos lettuce.
We had to be sure to leave plenty of space between each of our plants in order for them to have enough room to grow.

Our big worry is the birds and slugs.

A big thanks to John for securing a net over the top of the plants, this will keep off any birds and animals that want to nibble at our lovely fresh lettuce leaves.

Thanks to John for protecting our lettuce with some netting over it.

We also planted some seeds from India, Parvati (Chu chu).  From the [picture it looks like aubergine, but we are excited to see what grows!

The seeds are tiny.... smaller than a peppercorn!

We planted them in window boxes inside as our Irish weather would be a bit too cold for them. We are keeping them watered but not too much as they wouldn't usually get a lot of rain in India. We are keeping them inside to keep them warm.

We'll keep you posted on how the seeds are getting on!

Junior Infants Room 1

Green Fingers! 

Getting ready for planting.

 We went outside and filled the window box with soil. We all put some in the box.

Back in the classroom.

We sowed half the flower seeds in the window box. We will watch them grow.

The flower seeds are Larkspur. They are white, pink, purple and blue. We hope they grow. 

Herbs.

Mint and Lemon Verbena.

We went to the school garden and planted the herbs.

The mint has to stay in the pot or it will spread and overtake the garden.

The lemon verbena can be planted into the ground.

Mint and Lemon Verbena

  

Remember the Larkspur?

We planted the other half of it into the garden.

Which one will grow best?