Homeschool Garden Club - What is feeding our Bees this week?
This is week 27 of our academic year, and here is what we found in our Orchard Training Homeschool Garden that is in flower and feeding the bees and pollinators. We have just had a two week break for our Easter Holidays which meant the members of the Orchard Training Homeschool Garden club missed the apples and cherry trees blossom. The garden looked at is absolute best and then the cold, wet rain and the fierce winds.
I have managed to replace the fallen arch way and carefully tied in the honey suckle back on to the frame.
This project was setup to find if previous year group of Homeschool gardeners had planted enough food for the pollinators all year round. I have to say given the cold, the wet and the wind I haven't seen too any bees or pollinators around the garden over the Easter Break. I am not sure how much fruit will be pollinated this year!
We are using this pictorial evidence to be inclusive, not everyone taking part in the survey can write, very well at the moment, and some have not learnt all about graphs nor the name of the plants, as yet. Once we know what we have, we are going to gather the information together in to charts and graphs and see where we have gaps in the garden over the course of the year. We will be using both our mathematical knowledge and IT skills to make the records present the data. I am looking forward to finding out the results.
Can you identify the plants from you work in the garden and homework packs?
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