Orchard Training Homeschool Garden Club - Storm Damage

This week has been very busy at the Homeschool Garden Club, we have taken care of all those baby strawberry plants and everyone has had as many as they wanted. We have 12 safe and sound for two people who want be back home until mid- April. The pots have been replanted. A big thank you to 'muscles' who lifted up the fig a number of times so the team could get the right amount of compost in the bottom of the new pot so the plant sat at the right level. We have divided the perennials, a few horrified faces when we used the spade and brutally cut the sedum in half and heard the sound. The Christmas potatoes left over are now Easter Sunday potatoes.

The sunflowers seeds have been planted and are starting to germinate. The competition is very keen this year, with everyone up in Surrey very keen to take Southampton's Tallest Sunflower crown away from them. We moved them in to the cooler green house from the germinator, so they would not get all tall and spindly over the Easter holidays.

We finished all the jobs on our list, packed the tools away and said goodbye. Everything was fine in the garden, until the storm on Thursday. We woke up on Good Friday to some storm damage. With all the wind we had on Thursday night I am surprised we got way with only this.

In the past, we have lost compost bin doors, an empty water butt and the green house. Thankful this time, the green house with all the sunflower seedlings was safe.