Phyllis has been busy collecting her fruits and vegetables that she started growing earlier in the year.
BeetrootPepper
Phyllis has grown some lovely beetroot which is Tracie’s favourite. They are tasty in a salad or as a compliment in a comforting Scouse. The peppers in the greenhouse are looking good! Chloe loves to munch on these for a healthy snack.
Tomatoes Pumpkin
At the moment the tomatoes are still green, but by next week with a lot of sunny weather, they will soon turn red and be ready to eat with the beetroot in a summer salad!
CarrotsAmazing
The carrots are looking fabulous watch out for any rabbits Phyllis this is their favourite snack!
As you can see, Phyllis has a vast variety of fruits and vegetables growing. Looks like all her time in the garden has paid off.
We have been walking, playing and having picnics everywhere!
I See You! Carpet PlayReadingEmma and Jack
We enjoyed spending time at home with the sensory toys, practicing our walking skills and reading stories.
We all chose to have glittery tattoos done at the Liverpool Lighthouse. We then had a fun afternoon dancing and singing.
We even took part in an fire evacuation practice, we didn’t want anyone to know it was our smoke machine in the disco that set the alarm off! Ssshh don’t tell anyone!! At least we got to practice an evacuation!
Fire Evacuation: Too Marks We Are All Safe! Well Done JackCharlie and Jack
Jack stood up all by himself and the boys went rambling up the hill all by themselves!
ChloeGemma and JackGemma and ChlieFunny Face
We went to Cirq d-Play in Great Homer Street. Chloe loved the tube slide the best, her mum wanted to have a go too! Looks like you both enjoyed the experience, lovely face Gemma! Hahaha
Gemma Coco and JackPoppy
Jack enjoyed the baby slide and everyone wanted to have a go with him.
ChloePoppy and Gemma Coco Poppy
Poppy found the way up to the slide very challenging, Gemma and Chloe both encouraged her to have a try. It took about four attempts and quite a lot of screaming but eventually she made it up the ropes and down the tube slide!
The weather turned too cold and wet for a couple of days. We went to the park on the Monday and got drenched so we all decided to have a games day. The sun ended up coming back out!!
What Am I?Am I Sweet?
We loved the game ‘Fast Fish’ it was fun rolling the dice and predicting the colours of the fish we had to rush and find. Jack beat Tracie and Martha beat everyone!
Connect 4 Fast FishBlue, Purple and Pink Go Go GoChloe and JackJacy is Ace at Chess!
Poppy and Sophia love anything Japanese at the moment so after the cinema we decided to pop in to Yo Sushi to try some new foods. The girls loved trying to use chopsticks, it made our lunchtime last forever!
Sophia Not So SureHaving a TryChop Sticks Collecting The Food
While in town, we decided to have a walk about. The girls loved climbing the suitcases on Hope Street.
Paddy’s WigwamReaching the TopLeaving Home? Statue
Back at our setting we were busy painting our rocks that we made last week.
Jack is a StarBig Jack Ivor and Martha SoohieIvor Loved Painting
Tracie and some of the children went on a trip to Acorn Farm. We went into the petting station and loved sitting still and stroking the animals. Tracie made a friend with a goat and Jack loved the meerkats.
Play Time Who You Looking At? Big RabbitPlaying The DrumSelfie Jack and The SheepChloeTime To Pet The AnimalsChickensCheeky Goats
Emma went on a trip to Hollywood Bowl. They all jumped on a bus, played a couple of games and had a lovely lunch! What a lovely fun end to a busy second week!
Wonder what fun we will have in week three!? The summer holidays are going fast!
All the Seedlings enjoyed making Kindness Rocks over the last term. The older children asked if they could paint some over the summer holidays as they didn’t get a chance because they were at school.
Georgia JackSophie Working Hard
We thought it would be good to extend the activity by using clay to make the shapes to paint.
MasonAlfieJacy
First we had to kneed the clay to make it malleable to roll out. Then they chose a cutter and pressed it into the clay to make the shape. It was then laid out on some card ready to dry.
We had to leave them overnight again as they hadn’t completely dried out.
Painted Rocks
The children worked hard to paint the clay rocks ready to hide.
Painted RocksLook What We FoundLook hardMarthaSpace ManIs This One? Lovely LadybirdsColourful FearneIce Cream
We found just as many as we hid! We ended up going out for three days to hide them all!
We have had a ball this week, the sun has been out every day and the children have all been so good!
So Tired!Izzy’s First Day
Alfie was so tired one day he was nearly asleep while playing! Izzy had her first day with us and she was such a little giggler, her favourite play was jumping up and down in the activity centre.
Jack and MasonTarget Practice Aiming SkillsNot Too SureJacy’s Snail HotelMason’s Snail GardenJack And MasonHabitats Football Goal Stroppy Poppy 🤣🤣Disney Cruise ShipAlbert DockPlutoJacy and MasonAll Aboard The Cafe How TallLocksDancing On Everyone’s HeadsStreet ChalkingMuseum Believe In Yourself JacyOops Maybe Not! 😱Jack The SkaterChit ChatAlfie’s GoGo PoppyLittle Skater So ConfidentWait For Me AlfieSkate Park
Tracie is so relieved it’s Friday, we have had an eventful week but now time for a few days rest, then it all starts again!
This is my Dad and Rosie’s garden in Lincolnshire, it is so beautiful and well kept. They both must spend all their time mowing lawns, dead-heading flowers and watering the plants.
Rosie has been working hard to produce a wonderful wildlife garden ready for my dad’s bees to arrive.
The Bee Hives
The garden has grown up so tall and I bet there are 1000’s of different insects thriving, living in the flowers.
Pathway of Wildlife
My dad has mowed a pathway to enable them to get through to the hives and greenhouse. I just want to go and run through, looking at all the different flowers there are.
All Dad and Rosie’s hard work has paid off and here is the evidence Thousands of bees have made it their home. They will be busy bees making lots and lots of delicious honey!
How do you all like your honey? I like mine on a chunk of crusty bread mmmm. Hopefully, later in the year I will be able to post photos of the honey!
We have been so busy over the last month. Today we were able to harvest our Mangetout. The little seedlings tried them once Tracie had washed them.
Three seedlings wanted to try them and no matter how much we encouraged Sophie she wasnt up for tasting them.
Alfie and Georgia loved the Mangetout and ate loads but Emma and Fearne were not so keen. We loved the faces Fearne made, at least they tried them!
Mangetout
Having a Taste
Alfie
Georgia
Fearne
Thumbs up
Below are our other tasty fruits and vegetables we have growing in the garden.
Cucumber
Tomatoes
Ginger
Leaves
Strawberries
Thats not a vegetable. It’s a massive Lily!
This is a collection of photos of the plants the Rangers and Wanderers wanted me to post.
Allium
Our New Strawberry, we sowed in February
Hosta
Amazing Detail
Flanders Poppy
Fizzy’s Hiding Place
Hot Poker
Peony
Plum
We also had a few whoopsies! We had some visitors come and make holes in our cabbages! Georgia thought it was a hedgehog, Fearne thought it was a snail and Sophie said “I don’t know Tracie!” When I told them all it was a slug they all said yucky!
Slug
Cabbage
Our other problem was the giant Poppies, they have over taken our vegetable patch!
Gemma’s vegetable beds are amazing and full of lush green produce. When the days are sunny Gemma gets Chloe to help water them.
Vegetable Beds
All Growing Lush
Gemma loves Pac Choi and hers have grown really well. Once they start to flower, which is called bolting, the seeds grow for Gemma to collect for sowing next year!
Gemma’s radishes are amazing, they are as big as a large marbles.
Unfortunately my radishes have not turned out so well! Mine are as big as a grape, but not so juicy.
Phyllis has been working very hard in her garden over the last few months and it’s all just starting to pay off. Below are just a few of her amazing flowers, they come in all sizes, shapes and amazing colours.
Rose
Clematis
Pansy
Honeysuckle
Beautiful Blue
Shocking Pink
In the edible part of the garden, Phyllis’s fruit and vegetables are growing strong.
Watch out for your cherries Phyllis, I saw a cheeky blackbird flying around, eyeing them up for lunch!
The tomato vines are growing tall and strong, Phyllis is having to use canes to support the stems and cuts the side shots off to ensure the goodness goes into the growing delicious tomatoes.
Cherries
Tomatoes
Potatoes
Tomatoes and Coffee
First Earlies
Sunday Roast
Cabbage
Phylis has made a delicious Sunday roast using the potatoes and cabbage from her garden. They taste so much better than the ones you buy in the shops. What I want to know is where’s mine!!
This is Phyllis’ Christmas Dinner bed! She has made it in her front garden and all the vegetables will be used on Christmas day! I cant wait to see it all dished up, I had better get an invite!!!
What a wet May we have all had! Its been so hard gardening because every time we go to do some, the weather changes!!
The garden has loved the wet weather and all the plants and grass are all growing lovely.
Early in the year, we sowed tomatoes in various ways to see which would grow better.
Jacy’s Tomato Sowed Early in the Year
Jacy sowed his tomato seed in a Bisto pot, he thought it would protect the roots when he potted it on. Eventually the Bisto pot will disintegrate when the plant is placed in the grow bag giving the roots extra space to grow.
What a fantastic idea Jacy had. His tomato plant is the strongest, tallest and has a tomato already growing on it! We are so impressed that we are collecting Bisto pots now!
The pictures below are of Tracie holding Jacy’s tomato plant up so you can see the amazingly strong roots!
The middle picture is a tomato plant we grew in the green house in a plastic pot. As you can see there are less roots and they are wonky (we do love wonky veg so thats ok!) they are much smaller, thin and scraggly. The bottom pictures (above) are of our other seedlings which we are growing in toilet rolls and they seem nice and strong! We will start hardening them off soon, ready to be planted among our flowers.
Above is our pot we sowed the Melon seeds in. We have no idea how but we have a tomato plant and weeds! No sign of a melon!
We have tried to grow cucumbers as we had a bumper crop last year. Unfortunately they didn’t grow even though we sowed 6!
We decided to go to the garden centre and buy one already established. Within 2 days they had slug damage! So back to the garden centre we went. This time we have put a water marker on it, covered the pot rim with copper (to keep slugs away) and placed it on gravel. We will see how they go in our next garden post.
Tracie's Treasures 