The eco garden

One day our teachers decided to create a eco-

garden. So they wrote to our families

to ask for help.And we worked all together: It was all hands on board!

C.E.I.P. Narciso Alonso Cortés

Valladolid - Spain

Itziar’s grandfather turned over the soil.

He had to work very hard

Diego’s grandfather helped us to plant garlic.

Meanwhile we were preparing our seedlings. Once more our families helped us. Gerardo, Marta and Maria’s dad, became our

green garden teacher

By now our seeds had grown and Gerardo taught us how to plant them.

We started to eat peas at break-time. They were delicious!

And we picked our first harvest: lettuce

We had to do thousands of things:plant,dig,mix the compost, weed….

The best thing was watering the plants

Gerardo thought it was a good idea to make a herb garden, so we made a

rockery with them.

He showed us how to tell the difference between the plants by

smelling, touching and looking at them

In the end we had sage, camomile,mint and many more plants

As we had learned so much from Gerardo, we decided to prepare guided visits around the garden

We were so proud of our project that we organised an official inauguration.

We invented a song for this occasion. We made formal speeches.

Gerardo uncovered the plaque

We cannot forget about Jake, our scarecrow.

Our eco-garden has been made possible because of the help from the families.