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Many changes have occurred over the past few weeks whilst you have been away on school holidays. The garden is starting to grow and the birds are loving what we are planting! We will need to use our brains and come up with a solution to scare away the large birds that are using our garden to forage on.
 * Welcome back to the Garden **,

Last week the Friday gardening group were very industrious and cut some bamboo from the primary school garden. They cut the long stems and then trimmed them to size. Then they carried them to the garden to be used for teepees and veggie stakes. More raised veggie mounds have been dug, cucumbers, zucchini, watermelons and rockmelons are planted in these. Pumpkins of various varieties will be planted today. The wooden raised beds are now planted out with perennial longer term veggies. We have strawberries, asparagus, blueberries, Jerusalem artichokes and rhubarb planted in these beds. Next week we will plant our berries into the other raised bed.

We have been lucky to have lots of gorgeous rain over the past few weeks so we haven’t needed to worry about watering too much. Our water tanks have arrived and hopefully will be installed very soon.

**Happy gardening **, PS: we are in need of old bricks for garden edging, garden stakes and old garden tools so please ask your mums and dads to see if any can be found at home.
 * Sue.**