Happy Birthday

Our doors opened for the first time 12 years ago today!

Harvest Festival Collection

This weekend is Harvest Festival, we had a collection at the nursery 

We took our collection to the Barnabas Centre where it will be added to their stock that they use to feed people in need.

We emptied our collection box into the holding bin, each day volunteers sort the donations out in the stock room and make up parcels for the needy

Using our RHS Award

Earlier this year we won £250 worth of gardening vouchers from the Royal Horticultural Society for our hard work in the nursery garden today we went to Dobbies graden centre to use some of them to get equipment ready for next year

We bought a small greenhouse, some planters, some soil and lots of seeds. We also got a new tree. As well as flower seeds we also got vegetable seeds and even some seeds to grow snacks for Phillip's hamsters

We re-potted the tree into a bigger pot to help it grow better

Here you can see how much bigger the new pot is

Diddi Dancing comes to Club 0-14

Every week Emma from Diddi Dancers comes and teaches us dance moves, it is great exercise and we all love it.

Carrie-Ann loves dressing up to dance

Apple Picking 

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Babies and Toddlers

On the 23rd of August the babies and toddlers went outside to see how our very own apple tree was doing. When we looked we notice that the apples were ready to eat, so we decided to pick them. We took it in turns to pick the apples and placed them in a bowl.

Once they were picked we washed them and chopped them into slices ready to eat. We think they tasted delicious! We are also very proud that we grew them all ourselves by planting the seeds and making sure we watered and looked after them.

 Diana begins and picks out her apple

 

 Carrie-Ann and Nia both have a go at picking their apples from the tree. 

 Jack places his apple into the bucket and Ewan picks his red apple

 

Elsa enjoyed pulling her apple from the tree and used all of her strength as they were very well attached!

She then dropped her apple into the bucket being held carefully by Carrie-Ann.

Lucinda needed Claire's help to lift her up as she chose an apple very near to the top.

Seren also had fun pulling her apple from the tree and Diana carried the bucket back into nursery for us.

Time to eat our homegrown apples!

 

Diana and Lucinda choose their freshly washed apples from the bucket.

Sam is enjoying eating his apple

So is Lucinda

 

Carrie-Ann and Diana look very happy with their apples.

Club 0-14 is very proud of the children for taking such good care of the garden and the apple tree and we will be planting more trees soon.

Monday's Photo Competition

To celebrate the 125th year of the Shrewsbury Flower Show we went to the Dingle in the Quarry to hold a photography contest.

The winner was Lewis with the photograph below

Lewis' view of the Dingle garden

Runner-up Eleri, with the Dingle pond

Lake Vyrnwy

 On Friday we went on a trip to Lake Vyrnwy - to read more abou the Lake and it's origins, please see the Wikipedia article.

We had a picnic lunch and then hiked up the valley to the Rhiwagor Falls.