Last night we returned to the vegetable plots of St Nicholas' Primary School in Marston.

Having started to tame the jungle that was St Nicholas' Primary veggie garden a couple of months ago we were able to make further progress on weed-pulling, hedge trimming and nettle carnage last night. Most of the veggie beds had been covered with weed membrane before they got out of control, so pulling weeds up was largely a fairly easy job. A delightful scent was provided by the rampaging mint plants - almost covering up the smell of sweaty bodies working in the sunshine! In our alloted hour we mostly cleared the growing beds of weeds, lopped the hedge back a bit more, and pulled up much of the nettle border, so it's very close to being ready for use by the school. The plan will be for each year group to have a bed to grow vegetables, learning gardening skills and providing valuable therapeutic outdoor time. The crops will be used for cooking as well as selling the produce.

We have another visit booked in a fortnight's time when we will get the last of the nettles pulled out and tackle the section between the beds and the polytunnel.

I'm glad to see that there are some therapeutic uses for stinging nettles given the number of stings I got last night! https://www.mountsinai.org/health-library/herb/stinging-nettle

Plus, medical uses for chilli, as discussed: https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-945/capsicum

It's always a school day!

Welcome to GoodGym Hannah.