Garden

Our New School Garden

Stephen O’ Shea has been very generous with his time to help us with our school garden.

Each class has been assigned a raised bed and they will plant seeds in the 8 raised beds using the B.A.S.L. crop rotation system.

This year Junior Infants and 3^rd planted cabbages, 4^th and Senior Infants planted onions, 1^st and 5^th planted potatoes and 6^th and 2^nd planted beans and peas.

Crop Rotation

Stephen explained the importance of crop rotation to us as well as teaching us how to take care of the garden effectively. He brought us out to weed the garden beds. He told us that we also have to fertilise the garden. We used organic fertiliser and then planted our seeds. Classes will spend the next few weeks weeding their raised beds and looking after their plants.