Onion harvest and french beans transplanting

This lunch time was the first in the week without torrential rain.
The children have been amazing by watering the garden on their own initiative during the previous weeks when the ground was extremely dry.

Today we had a look at the soil as some of the little ones wanted to water again. When we took a closer look, they noticed that the water butt was full and that the soil was damp to a finger deep. Conclusion no need to water until....

We had sown a lot of french beans, many too close together so we decided to transplant them in the bed where the garlic used to be. Once transplanted they were watered in (to the great pleasure of the children as they seem to love this activity)

We also harvested the onions, counted them, divided them, and shared them between 9 children.
We then tied together bunches of 5 onions per child with some bind weed, so the gardeners could take the bunches home without falling apart.

My sincere apologies to the teachers who will have some very potent  bunches of onions in their class rooms.