Just before the end of the summer term, our strawberry, redcurrant, blueberry and raspberry bushes were providing delicious and healthy break time snacks for the children. Now the salad and vegetable crops are coming into their own.
This year, we are growing; spinach, kale, broad beans, runner beans, kohl rabi, turnips, courgettes, butternut squash, cabbages, cauliflower, leeks, beetroot, carrots, tomatoes and a variety of lettuces. We have normally stuck to growing one or two crops in each raised bed, but this year we are trying something different. A year one and two child I have been working with decided that they wanted to take a bed each and grow a whole range of different crops side by side. So far, the experiment seems to be working very well, with all the crops growing away happily together. In fact historically, we have always struggled to grow decent carrots, but the ones in the mixed beds are doing brilliantly.We will continue to weed, water, feed and harvest over the summer holiday and should still have plenty of crops to harvest when the children return in September.
