Homeschool Garden Club - What is feeding our bees this week?

This is week 28 of our academic year, and despite the heavy rain with sleet and wild winds again this week we still have blossoms on the fruit trees and I have now seen the pollinators out and about when we have had periods of calmer weather. The pear tree has been pollinated there are lots of tiny baby pears on both of the trees. The Victoria plum tree is looking somewhat bare of tiny plums so I fear we have missed out this year on that fruit.

The strawberries, you will be please to hear, are flowering in waves and we will be able to pick strawberries from early June to September. We have both the wild strawberries and the cultivated strawberries in flower, I will leave it up to you to count them as 1 - strawberries or as 2 different plants in your maths on graph making. Like wise, the cooking apple is now in flower and the Russet apple is still in flower.

This year, many of our homeschoolers were able to take home 8 to 10 potted on baby strawberry plants, as they went wild and spread absolutely everywhere. So this year's jam making and strawberry cake events at the Homeschool Cookery Club will be amply supplied from the Orchard Training Homeschool Garden.

In the meantime, here is what we found in our Orchard Training Homeschool Garden that is in flower and feeding the bees and pollinators.

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. The homeschool learner, who took the photographs this week has tabled the ones he knows. Well done you! He is in the cookery club so he knows the crops not the flowers, which is a brilliant start!

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.