we were very busy in gardening club today. We sowed 3 seed trays of different types of lettuces. We hope to have these grown by the launch of our garden on the 16th June so that we can serve them on the day.
We also weeded our onion raised bed. Our onions are coming on really well.
Yesterday Mrs Toman and Ms Nutt were visited by the two members of local gardening clubs (Portstewart and Coleraine) - Mr Lyttle and Mr Turbitt - they were a wealth of information on what and how to grow vegetables successfully. They advised us to chop the seed head off the rhubarb. They said that because the rhubarb had been recently replanted from its original home, it was feeling a little bit threatened and therefore it sent a seed head up so that it would know that the seeds would ensure its survival. By chopping this seed head off, all the energy that it would have wasted in producing the seeds is then sent back down to the roots and makes our rhubarb a stronger plant for next year. One of the photos shows the rhubarb with the seed head before it was decapitated!!!!
We also potted up our raspberry twig, blackcurrant, blackberry and a rose climber. They look like twigs just now but you can just about see little buds coming out on them so we hope they will produce some leaves soon and start to grow.
The trees that we received from the Woodland Trust are growing well and now that we hope the frost is over we have moved their pots outside. When the topsoil is laid out on the other bits of the garden we will plant these out later on in the month.
All in all a very busy day. We did not get all the task done today that we need to do - still lots of weeding and potting up to do. We have now agreed that pupils that can come at lunchtimes as well will come down to do a bit of weeding etc. 
Will keep you updated as usual next week.
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