‘Our school vegetable garden has been in full bloom throughout May and June, with most vegetables having been set in March/April. A new venture this year was the use of plastic coverings to allow us to plant earlier and give more heat and shelter to the crops so they would be ready to harvest in June. In May we had to do some watering and weeding. The fruits of our labour were evident in the end of June when we harvested rhubarb, lettuce, onions, shallots, garlic, potatoes, broad beans, white turnips and a little broccoli. We even had our own ‘Farmer’s Market’ at the school gate where we sold our produce!’ (Mr. Fleming)
Our Indoor Garden!
Rang a Cúig (Mr. O’Loingsigh) grew peas and tomatoes in the sunny South/East facing classroom! The peas germinated really quickly in March and produced pods in May. The tomatoes were propagated from seed in February. In April they were transplanted to large pots when they were 24cm high. They grew spectacularly well, 1cm per day at first, accelerating to 5cm per day by May. By early June they measured 2m35cm and had lots of flowers and fruit. There are plenty of large green tomatoes just starting to ripen on the plants now.
