Sunday 8 November 2015

Sowing seeds in the wild flower meadow


On Monday 12th October class 4M began work with Mrs Bryant to create areas of wildflower meadow. To start with we went to the shed to get the tools we needed such as rakes, string, sticks and pots. With the wheelbarrow loaded up we headed to the orchard.

We needed to prepare the ground so that the seeds would have the best chance of germinating. We did this by raking (scarifying) all of the dead grass from the surface of four large areas marked out with string and sticks topped with pots.




Using the rakes was hard work and some of us found it easier to use our hands! The grass that we pulled out was put on top of our haystack. The haystack was steaming as it was warm inside, we got to jump up and down on it and it felt bouncy like a mattress because of all of the air inside.

The ground is ready for seeding
Next we all had handfuls of native wildflower seed that we scattered on our marked out areas, there were lots of funny shapes and different coloured seeds. We predicted they would take 3 weeks to germinate. Our school want to have meadows to encourage pollinators.










When we came back from our half term holiday we could see that our seeds had started to germinate.