This afternoon, the year 3 gardeners helped to tackle the fruit bush border. There was lots of clearing and weeding to be done and the team really got their backs in to it. We managed to clear out most of the weeds in preparation for covering the border with a new layer of weedproof membrane and bark chippings next week.
We will then be able to plant our new fruit bushes, some of which came courtesy of the Morrison’s Let’s Grow vouchers.
The children had great fun finding all the different mini-beasts that were lurking in the fruit border. Among them were ladybirds, caterpillars, slugs, beetles, earwigs, spiders and even some tiger worms!
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Sounds like a lot of hard work to me! Only kidding – what a great way of improving the school environment. I have to ask – what are tiger worms?
Mr Harrison
Headteacher
Miriam Lord, Bradford.
Tiger worms (also known as brandling worms) are a species of earthworm that are noted for their super composting skills. We had some delivered from Devon with our new wormery, but I fear the cold snap earlier this month may have been too much for them. So, we are hoping to recruit some tough Yorkshire worms to take over the composting duties!
The children had great fun and could not wait to tell me about the fun they had had when they returned. Its a shame they brought half the garden back with them on their muddy hands. (chuckle chuckle).
Well done!
Mrs Sutcliffe
oops! They did begin with gardening gloves on, but sought to remove them at every possible opportunity. I guess they wanted to get closer to nature! They had great fun comparing all the different coloured and sized worms. They tried to gather them all together to count them all, but the worms kept wiggling away!
Minibeasts=Mr.Wallis scared.
A blizzard is caused by the interaction of high and low pressure systems. The air from the H will rush in to the L creating strong winds and precipitation. There must be cold air and snow, and sustained winds of 35 mph as well.
by Reece john hahn searching on the internet.