Gardening Club - time to plant out the beans and lettuces

Today we welcomed 2 American guests to help us in the garden. They were Barbara (the mother of Lindy who is our visiting volunteer) and her grand daughter Isabelle. They were visiting Cambridge and had heard from Lindy about the amazing helpers in St Luke's Gardening Club.

They wanted to meet them for themselves and maybe tell their friends in the US to do something similar in their school.  

When they arrived, we picked up the french beans and lettuces from the covered area as they were screaming out to be transplanted, so fantastic to have so many helping hands.

Some great news was that  after weeks of trying to find the key to the tap, we found it today! We rolled out the two long hoses and wheeled them to the kitchen garden, this meant we could do a thorough watering session. Every bed had a good amount, as rain has been lacking in the last few weeks.

We harvested some peas and shared it between the group and had a little peep on how the new potatoes were doing. We all had 2 potatoes to take home, but will wait for a little longer to harvest the other buckets.

In bed 1 we transplanted the leeks, bed 3 the lettuces and in bed 9 the french beans.

It is looking good and hope that we get a little more rain to get them through  the next week and settle in.