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The Autumn term has flown by in a haze of heat and dust in the East of England making typical autumn garden activities difficult such as weeding and clearing beds and bulb planting. The plus side has been an extended season of harvesting tomatoes - this has to have been the best year for outdoor tomato...
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The autumn sowings of broad beans and peas are ready for harvesting now - infact - we picked over 3 kilograms of broad beans at Brampton Village Primary - just before half term. Autumn planted onions and garlic will be ready soon too. Radishes were also eaten by pupils. Its been a busy summer term.,...
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I have been busy over the last 6 weeks running twilight teacher training sessions (after school hours) to teaching staff and others interested in school gardening on what to sow and grow this spring term. I work with 10 schools across the eastern region, RHS Garden Hyde Hall and The People's Community...
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Children from Cherry Tree Primary School worked along side RHS Hyde Hall gardener Andrew Hellman, myself, parent volunteers and teachers to build 8 plastic raised beds that will form the basis of their new vegeteble garden. The children planned the garden back in the summer term and now their plans are...
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Despite the torrential rain, I joined a team of parents, grand parents, the head teacher and her husband, who had volunteered to help build new raised beds in the school garden at Fairhaven Primary school. Broads Authority Countryside Rangers also came along with volunteers to carry out woodland management...
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Last week I visited Pott Row First School in Kings Lynn - the first school in the eastern region to reach level 5 of the RHS Campaign for School Gardening Benchmarking scheme. The school's prize is a day with RHS educaton staff doing fun gardening activities, plus a tree or plant of their choice...
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It’s harvest time, and with it we’ve been celebrating the wonderful world of produce at A Taste of Autumn. It was a phenomenal success this year, with Wisley’s busiest ever day on record on Saturday. As part of the celebrations we do an apple mosaic. Every year we invite school children to draw up a...
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Last Monday 10th March was Commonwealth Day www.commonwealthday.com , held at Westminster Abbey. Among the guests were Janet Corrigan from the Seed Department based here at Wisley, along with our President and Director General, and Her Majesty the Queen. This year’s theme was ‘The Environment – Our Future...
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