June 2009

Spain

Lettuce

The first thing that was ready for picking was the lettuce.

Every student in class 6C took a head of lettuce home to make their own garden salad.

This salad was made using the lettuce from our school garden. Delicious!

Potatoes

We also planted potatoes and used them to make a traditional Andalusian dish, the “tortilla de patatas”, or Spanish omelette.

Every student in class 6A took home a potato to use to make their own Spanish omelette. If you want to know how to make one for yourself, just look at the recipe on the Comenius web page. It's simple, healthy and delicious!

Onions

Here we are with our onions. They made us cry! We used them in our salad, in our Spanish omelette and to make gazpacho.

Tomatoes

You can see our tomatoes to the left of this picture. They started out small but soon grew very tall. We put up bamboo poles to help support them.

Our tomatoes grew and ripened. When they were red, we picked them and took them home. We used them to make salads, gazpacho and paella.

Peppers

Our green pepper plants grew tall and gave a lot of vegetables. We used them to make gazpacho, a traditional Spanish summer drink.

Other fruits and vegetables

We also grew strawberries, watermelon, cucumbers, eggplants and runner beans in our garden. In the end we were surprised by how well everything grew and proud of our work. We had a great time going to the garden to work, water, play and reap the fruits of our labour.

We made a special display in our school office featuring the products of our garden and showing pictures of our students eating a Spanish omelette, something we made with our potatoes.