Growing Onions

We planted our onions in May. We used small onions called sets and left 12 centimetres between each onion.





























In the beginning some magpies or pigeons pulled up our onion sets.This is a picture of our onions in June. We had a very successful crop as every single onion grew.











When we returned to school on the 1st of September our onions were ready to harvest. We picked them all in a few minutes and then we brought them inside to dry. We will use them next month when we hope to cook some of our vegetables.

Sunflowers

In May the pupils in Senior Infants and 1st class sowed sunflower seeds. They planted out the sunflowers in the garden. The sunflowers grew very tall during the summer holidays.

When we came back to school we were a bit disappointed because the sunflowers weren’t in bloom. We think that the bad weather delayed the flowers.

This week we were very happy to see that the sunflowers had started to bloom. I measured the tallest plant and discovered that it had grown 2 metres 70 centimetres in 14 weeks. The stem of the sunflower is coarse and hairy. I used a piece of string to measure the circumference of the thickest stem. It was 12 centimetres. When the sunflowers finish blooming we will leave them there so that the birds can eat the seeds.

September Podcast

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Preparing the Site

Preparing the site was the most difficult part. Darragh and Frank worked for hours and hours removing rubble, rotovating and raking until our site was prepared and ready for planting. Finally they laid slabs to that we would have place to stand when we were working in the garden.

This is a picture of the rotovator that they used. It was very heavy and you needed lots of strength to control it.