Gardening with Children

During March our Schools Competition was to find three signs of spring, tell us what they were, as well as your favourite thing about spring.

We had a great vegetable growing starter kit to give away to one lucky school which included

• 5 Polypot Grow Bags
• 10 Seed Potatoes
• A Selection of Garlic Bulbs
• 2 Rhubarb Kits (2 patio planter bags, 1 Rhubarb Crown Timperely Early, 1 Rhubarb Crown Raspberry Red)
• 2 bags of vegetable compost to start you off.

There were lots of entries but the winning school was St. John’s Catholic Junior School at Bebington, many congratulations to them and we hope that their vegetables grow superbly.

Thank you to all of you who entered this competition, why not have a go at our current competitions in:

The School Zone

This year the Queen celebrates her Diamond Jubilee and there will be lots of events and festivities taking place all over the country.

For a chance to win some great gardening goodies get patriotic and have a go at our competition, all you need to do is to ‘Draw a Royal Garden’ and you could win:

1 x Kids Standing Raised Bed Growing Table

1 x Gardener’s Apprentice Hand Fork

1 x Gardener’s Apprentice Hand Trowel

2 x Children’s Gardening Aprons

1 x Kid’s traditional Watering Can

A selection of Seeds

So get designing and send in your drawings to us before 31^st May 2012. For more information and an entry form see our School Zone.

Take a look at our other competition in the Family Zone.

Lots of seeds can be started off on your windowsill and an ideal way to grow them is in a Mini Propagator especially if the weather outside is cold or wet.

To win some great garden goodies all you need to do is to

SOW AND GROW SOMETHING YOU CAN EAT ON YOUR WINDOWSILL

and then tell us all about it or send in a photograph or a drawing

 The winning entry will receive:

• A Children’s Mini Propagator Seed Growing Kit
• A Growbox Children’s Flower Garden in a box
• A Kid’s Traditional Watering Can
• 2 Gardener’s Apprentice Hand Trowels

So get planning, sowing and growing as entries need to be in by 31^st May 2012. For more information and an entry form take a look at our Family Zone.

Good Luck

Gill