Green-fingered Gardeners!

Today in the Early Years Unit the children have been helping take care of the gardening area.  They dug out all of the weeds and old plants from our vegetable tyres and found some very interesting creatures on the way!  The soil in the tyres is now ready for lots of digging next week, before we plant some of the seeds we are growing in pots.

 

 

 Before....

 ...and after!

We also relocated our insect hotel as we are developing the gardening space.  We moved in some guests straight away: we recognised worms, caterpillars, slugs and snails, but wondered if anybody at home can help us to identify the two mystery creatures we found whilst we were tidying up?

https://ladybirdplantcare.co.uk/chafer_grub.html we've found it!

And what is this?!

The new insect hotel under construction.