Garden+Club+-+Harvest+Time

=It's Harvest time!=
 * Back to The Garden Club**
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linked to the German **//Herbst//**, meaning autumn.
|| ====We gathered and reaped ... tomatoes, potatoes, courgettes, marrows, beetroot, beans, peas, silver beet, cucumbers and onions... carefully selecting the best vegetables for out first-time entry into the local Garden Show. Trevor taught us what to look for in each type of vegetable to impress the judges.====

We took **HEAPS** of vegetables home and sold **LOTS** to the teachers to raise some money to buy seeds for the spring....
=The Outram Flower Show... We Won!=
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The biggest surprise was that we had won the Vegetable Section for our **gorgeous** eggplant.
=Plans for the Spring...=
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However, the word spring only began to be used to name the season following Winter in the 1500s.
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**We have made a compost site** - three giant bins made from recycled plastic pallets.
====Composting is fun - it's also easy and grows beautiful gardens... how does it work? Click **[|here]** to find out .==== Source:www.co.grays-harbor.wa.us || || Source: g2bgreen.com ||
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