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Potatoes, compost and worms

2/3/2013

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Spent today putting out our first lot of potatoes. We usually plant them outside in old car tires to protect them and make it easy to harvest them once they are done. This year we thought we would try growing them like the farmers do. We made a furrow in the soil and planted 10-12 potatoes all in a row, covered them up and watered them. Now when they start to grow we will have to push up the surrounding soil to make potato pyramids to keep the developing spuds undercover.
We also turned the compost and found lots of extra worms to help with the decomposing process. And we did the first lawn mow of the season to which the grass clippings ended up in the compost bin too.
Lastly we had added a new storage shelf and did a big tidy up in prep for the Family Learning Day next week (9th March 2013). During the tidy up we managed to dig up three forgotten parsnips which was a lovely surprise :)

In addition to all of this we had two special guests at the Garden..... Two of the baby chicks we went to visit earlier on in the week (see post below) came to visit the Garden!

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