Micklands Primary School Community Garden
Community Garden Based Site
After school family sessions every Monday 3.15pm-4.15pm (term time only)
Tutor : Sandra Gough
Micklands Primary school have been working with Food4Families to turn an area of the school playing filed where there as condemned play equipment into a garden where families from the local community can learn how to grow fruit and vegetables.
The Micklands garden club started on April 4th with a potato planting session. The potatoes were planted in containers as we had not constructed the raised beds.
We also planted tomatoes, peas and beans in pots to take home and look after for the Easter holidays.
A Sunday session saw the start of the demolition of the condemned play equipment to make way for the forest garden and the construction of the raised beds.
On May 5th the BG group arrived at Micklands with pick axe, chainsaw and other heavy duty tools to complete the dismantling of the play equipment. A fantastic amount of work was achieved in one day transforming the area into a garden that was ready to plant.
Since then we have planted more potatoes and a variety of other vegetables in the raised beds. Fortunately the children are keen to water as well as plant seeds as we are faced with wind and sun dried soil.
A holiday session in half tem allowed us to cover a third of the forest garden with cardboard, and manure ready to plant more of this area. The willow keyhole bed was completed using some of the wood from the demolished play equipment.
