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  • New Allotment garden at Holland Park Primary School Clacton, essex

    Photo uploaded by Alison Findlay on 12 Oct 2008

    This week saw the opening of Holland Park Primary School's new allotment garden -13 raised beds - one for each class - are now planted up with autumn crops such as texel greens, spinach, garlic and japanese onion sets. Year 6 teacher Nigel Lake attended an RHS CPD day and is now in charge of planning... Read more..

  • New Raised beds built at Fairhaven Primary School

    Photo uploaded by Alison Findlay on 24 Jan 2009

    RHS Campaign For School Gardening Advisor Alison Findlay worked with volunteers from the school community, including parents and grandparents, the school's head teacher Mel Fearn and her husband, and year 6 children, in driving rain to build new raised beds at Fairhaven Primary School on thursday... Read more..

  • Plenty of Beds but no rest ...

    Blog post by Alison Mundie on 24 Feb 2009

    The snow has gone at last, thank goodness, so work continues apace on the raised bed building in the new productive area. Once beds are drilled and screwed together, the fun bit of lining them up on the ground to fit the design begins - not always as straightforward as it sounds, especially on a site... Read more..

  • adding the soil, recycling cardboard packaging!

    Photo uploaded by Alison Findlay on 07 Mar 2009

    Soil was collected in tub trugs and buckets from a pile that came from the pond that was dug last summer. The beds were lined with cardboard from the plastic bed packaging to cover the grass at the bottom of the bed. The beds are deep enough to allow the cardboard and grass to rot over the next few months... Read more..

  • Mucking and Weaving

    Blog post by Alison Mundie on 20 Mar 2009

    Very busy times in the garden now and the warm and dry weather has meant great progress in the new kitchen garden. Most of the soil preparation is complete, to the relief of all the gardeners involved (some were beginning to get overload - see picture), with the mushroom compost, manure, composted bark... Read more..

  • Going backwards – and then forwards

    Blog post by Geoff Hodge on 27 Apr 2009

    After three weeks of sowing a wide range of things at home in the raised beds, hardly anything had germinated – apart from two poor rows of radish! So I decided to delve deeper and see if there was a bigger problem than just the cold weather. And I’m glad I did. Two things became apparent. The soil had... Read more..

  • New Vegetable Garden at Cherry Tree Primary School

    Blog post by Alison Findlay on 07 Mar 2009

    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... Read more..

  • Costessey High School gets ready for fruit planting in its new growing garden

    Blog post by Alison Findlay on 17 Feb 2009

    Costessey High school is busy building a new growing area to support the new Environment and Land based diploma that will start in schools from September 2009. Back in the autumn I worked with Year 11 GSCE science students to design the new garden, measuring the plot and marking out the new beds. Pauilne... Read more..

  • Community builds new school garden at Fairhaven Primary School

    Blog post by Alison Findlay on 22 Jan 2009

    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... Read more..

  • plastic beds are easy to assemble - children can do it themselves and so be involved with setting up their gardens from the beginning

    Photo uploaded by Alison Findlay on 07 Mar 2009

    Children at Cherry Tree Primary School worked along side RHS Hyde Hall gardener Andrew Hellman, myself and parent volunteers to assemble plastic rasied beds and fill them with soil to make their new vegetable and fruit garden. Read more..