Our Potatoes

 

Digging the Potatoes

We planted a very special variety of potatoes called Sarpo Mira. We choose this variety because they are supposed to be almost blight free.

Our potatoes grew very fast over the summer holidays. They have big green stems and leaves and some of them have white flowers with orange centres. I noticed that some of the leaves have a problem. In the beginning I though they had got blight but then I discovered that it was black spot.

I am looking forward to the day when we will be digging up the potatoes. We hope to weigh our crop to measure how much potatoes we grew. Then some of the members of our club will have to cook them. I am looking forward to tasting them as I haven’t eaten Sarpo Mira potatoes before.

Growing Pumpkins

 

 

The pumpkin plants were about 10 centimetres when my teacher brought them to school.

• We kept them in the class for a few weeks.
• In May I measured out an area of 1 m²for each pumpkin.
• I dug a hole and filled it with farmyard manure.
• I covered it and made a mound with a moat around it.
• I planted a tiny pumpkin at the top of each mound.
• We put a mini-greenhouse around it to protect it from strong winds.
• There were a few yellow flowers on the plant when we got our summer holidays.

 

 

During the summer enormous green leaves grew on the plants and hidden in the

middle were two very large pumpkins. We measured the stem and found that one

of the pumpkin plants had grown over 3 metres. It grew and grew like a giant

beanstalk and covered our herbs and strawberries. We will let our pumpkin grow

for several more weeks.

 

 

 

We let our pumpkin grow until Novenber. Then we harvested then and brought

them inside. We weighed then and found that the heavier one weighed 1

0 kilogrammes.We hope to cook them later in the term

 

 

I Won the Prize

 

One day we heard that the Garden clob was holding a competition to guess the weight og the larger pumpkin. They brought ina 1 kilo weight . We got a chance to hold the weight in our hands before we had to guess the weight of the pumplin. We all had to write down our guess on a list.

The next week I got a marvellous surprise. I was one of six people in the school to guess the exact weight which was 10 kilos. My prize was to help to cook the pumpkin. First I helped cut it into thousands of little cubes. We also chopped up some of thepotatoes and onions form the garden to use in the soup.

We had a large pot and we made Pumpkin soup for over 20 childre. We also made pumpkin ice pops and baked some of the seeds and made a delicious snack.

We  went down to the staff room and ate wedges, pumpkin soup and the pumpkin ice pops. It was a fantastic meal.