The
Harewood Learning team have this Monday begun work on the Harewood Learning
Garden, and have learnt first hand the hard work of gardening!
Our aims
of the first gardening session were to clear the corner of the garden ready for
our pond area to be built, and begin work on our habitat pile. The corner
of the garden in the picture below is going to be where we dig our pond, so the
first job of the day was to clear everything from this corner, before any
digging could begin. After raking leaves up from the area to become our
pond, we soon came up against a large barrier in the form of a very troublesome
shrub called a Philadelphus. With very deep roots, this shrub was
well and truly rooted in the ground, and consequently delayed our preparation
of the pond area, as we were unable to remove it!
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The Philadelphus shrub, which needed to be
removed before the digging of the pond could begin
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After
battling with the Philadelphus shrub, our next job in the garden was to
rake the many dead leaves that had fallen in the flower beds. This was a
long job, as the piles of leaves were very deep, and we had been told to watch
out for toads, who liked the damp piles of dead leaves!
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The flowerbeds of the Learning Garden, ready for
raking
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All the
leaves we raked had to be collected, as we would be using them to make our
habitat pile, in another area of the garden.
For the
habitat pile, we needed to rake all the leaves into a very large mound, in our
wilderness garden. Once the leaves were all in a pile, we gathered lots
of branches and twigs from the garden, and laid them on top of the leaf pile,
to creat our habitat pile, which we will continue to add to next week.