Spring Time

Mr Tully and Mr Brankin have been busy planting a wide range of vegtables and flowers using the Academy's bedding areas. Mr Brankin will be leading a gardening club, for enthusuaistic students, such as Laura Pendlebury and Shane Peet.

In the two small raised vegetable beds there is spring cabbage, purple sprouting broccoli, cauliflower, surround by a border of small daffodils, winter pansies and hyacinths (good sources of nectar for insects during spring).   Mrs Lyth, science teacher, has already been harvesting, and nibbling, some of the broccoli and declaring it “good!”. The vegetables grown in these beds are grown without the use of pesticides; more greener techniques being used to treat pests and diseases that may affect plants from time to time.

In the long bed, to the left as you look out of the building, potatoes  and onion sets have been planted; as, or if, spring becomes warmer a number of vegtable seedling are growing in our greenhouse and the science prep room counter awaiting frost free nights.