The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) have a wonderful scheme which helps and encourages school gardens.
The RHS Campaign for School Gardening:
- aims to encourage and support schools to develop and actively use a school garden.
- provides teachers with resources through their website
- provide an extensive programme of CPD days for teachers
Schools joining the RHS scheme receive:
- Free start-up kit
- Rewards and certificates for your progress on the new benchmarking scheme.
- Access to useful information and advice that will help you use your school’s garden to greater effect.
- Regular news and items of interest sent to you by e-mail.
- Free seeds from the Schools Seed Distribution Scheme once a year.
- Regional Advisors
John Hickling, Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) regional officer for Yorkshire and Humberside has just visited the garden and gardeners at Leys Farm Junior School in Scunthorpe, where they had a Get Grown-Ups Growing day.
“Gardening encompasses all areas of the national curriculum including science, maths, English and geography,” he said.
Parents and friends from the local community joined in, in what was a win – win situation.
The RHS are doing great work helping schools use and develop their gardens
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LeafBlower
The leaves have been falling off the trees for quite a few weeks, and there seem to be good reasons for buying a leaf blower! We have had ours for well over ten years and it has been well worth the investment.
Our five good reasons for buying a leaf blower are:
- saves time – much quicker than using a rake
- blower does a better job than a rake – it blows all the leaves off the surface, whereas a rake mixes the leaves in, so it is difficult to rake all the leaves up
- simple & easy to use
- blower clears leaves from nooks and crannies, & will tidy up around pots and gate posts
- cheaper & more compliant than a gardener
Leaf blowers come in all shapes and sizes, the one below is on the large side but smaller leaf blowers are less expensive.
Some machines can be used to blow leaves and to shred them.
There are many different sorts of leaf blower to suit different needs, but they are a very useful tool. There are at least five good reasons to buy a leaf blower.
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Solar Shed Lights are the ideal way to light a garden shed.
With a solar powered light:
- There are no running costs
- No mains power is required
- They can provide several hours of light a day
- They can be remote controlled
- Some detect movement and switch on automatically
- They can often stores energy for up to a year
- They should be weatherproof and sturdy
- They are environmentally friendly
- Check they are easy to install
