In our first lesson we planted lots of bulbs and different types of seeds. I planted dahlias, oxalis Dieppe and cucumber. The other children planted French beans, tomatoes, swiss chard, beetroot, sweet peas, marigolds, sunflowers and lots of different flowers. Our greenhouse was full of plants which we watered regularly.

In the following lessons, we got the planting beds ready by smoothing out the soil and taking out some weeds. We tidied the raspberry patch by cutting away the dead twigs, giving it some spent mushroom compost and lots of water.

In gardening I have learnt to recognise the weeds from the plants that we have planted. I also learnt that if you grow marigolds next to vegetable plants then bugs don’t eat them because they don’t like the smell of marigolds. It is also good to grow flowers with vegetables because the flowers bring in the pollinating insects which then pollinate our vegetable plants.

I really enjoyed harvesting strawberries, radish and rhubarb. I made rhubarb crumble and rhubarb stew with my mum. I also liked being outdoors and doing things with my hands and I got closer to the other people in my group.