Our Award Winning Garden

The Wheelbarrow Sale

“The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.” 🌱
We have cucumber, spring onion, beetroot, tomatoes, peppers, mint, strawberries, leeks, peas, celery, parsley, red onion and lupins. We look forward to hearing about the planting adventures and bountiful harvests around Ballinascreen this year. 🌱 🥒 🫛 🍅 #EatThemToDefeatThem

“A garden is a great teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.”
Busy hands are getting ready for this year’s plant sale. Stay tuned for more updates. Careful nurturing has reaped bountiful rewards. 🪴 #EatThemToDefeatThem

Harvest, Cook, Taste

In seed time learn. In harvest teach. In winter enjoy! One year in the garden ends and another one begins!

Back By Popular Demand

SALE STARTS TODAY FRIDAY 20th MAY
Our children have carefully nurtured all the plants from seed and they are so excited to start the plant sale at St. Mary’s PS Garden Centre.

LOOK OUT FOR THE WHEELBARROW AT THE FRONT OF THE SCHOOL. DELICIOUS FRESH PRODUCE FOR SALE. WATCH THE PROMOTION VIDEO TO FIND OUT MORE. 🥕

Vegetables for Sale

Growing Cauliflower From Seed

The Carrot Book

Primary 3 planted a carrot book packed with seeds.

Yummy Lettuce

Fruits of the Labour

St. Mary's PS Draperstown Garden Centre Sale

Winter Gardening

Planting Seeds

Planting Peas

Busy In The Garden

Harvesting, Cooking and Tasting the Produce

Getting Ready for the Plant Sales

Footage of Our Live Link to the Bird House

There was great excitement as we arrived at school this morning to find two new baby bluetits on our live link to the birdhouse. Mother and babies are all doing fine!

Number Three Arrives

Mum Helps our third baby bluetit come out of it's shell.