Keeping the gardens buzzing

Keeping the gardens buzzing

Hi there from the Incredible Edibles (Monday team). We are located on the rooftop garden next to the 2nd floor of the Heritage Cafe. In the gardens, we grow Lettuce, Tomatoes, Dill, Turmeric, Black Beans and even Cucamelons! Cucamelons are small watermelons the size of grapes and taste like cucumbers with a tinge of sourness. (another blog post will tell you more about these!)

Most weeks, we weed most of the beds (big pots) and fill any beds which need to be filled with dirt and/or compost. In addition, occasionally we need to put new seeds in because we have new beds, the previous seeds don’t grow or we just have space!

We work very hard every day to keep our garden buzzing and we will replace all the old things with new things and we always have the right resources to plant many amazing foods which may sometimes have grown so well that it could be sold in the supermarket.

In gardening there are always ups and downs and sometimes we may feel happy for ourselves that we grew a seed and it was successful and some days we may be disappointed with ourselves that it didn’t work out as we thought it would. Although one thing everyone should have while gardening is resilience. Resilience is a very important virtue in gardening as gardening is not as easy as it looks.

In conclusion, the Incredible Edibles are a reliable team of workers and gardeners who help to contribute to a more sustainable future one step at a time.

 

Harvesting the pineapple at last!

Harvesting the pineapple at last!

In our last Wednesday session for Incredible Edibles we celebrated by harvesting our pineapple and eating it together. It was absolutely delicious and tasted all the sweeter for having been grown by us!

We also had a reflection session in which we each answered the following questions:

  1. What has been your highlight in Incredible Edibles so far?
  2. What have you learned?
  3. What should be a focus for our work next term?

You can see our group reflections in the Reflection video