The Kitchen Garden Project  2010

In March, we sent all our schools in Suffolk a fantastic selection of seeds to grow, which will help children to experience the joy of gardening and improve their understanding of how food grows. The 2010 selection is supplied free of charge and includes:

•  Wheat – it's a lot easier to grow than you may imagine. Sow in late summer, grow the wheat, pick off the ears from the stalk, remove the grain, blow off the chaff a to make some flour.  We supplied each school with sufficient seed to grow 1 metre square of wheat. 
• Pumpkin: Jack Be Little, fun to grow and an ideal item for children to start off in school, take home over the summer and return to school, once grown, for harvest festival activity.
• Walking Stick Cabbage An amazing plant that grows up to 15 feet! 
• Carrots – Sugarsnax, extra sweet with high levels of beta carotene. Ideal for summer term lunchtime salads
• Spinach – Medania, easy to grow.  Popeye’s favourite!
• Salad Leaves – Niche, a salad leaf blend of amazing colours, flavours and textures.
• Potatoes – Swift, easy to grow and the quickest to produce 'baby new potatoes' in the summer term. Superb in containers or use the popular growing bags which we’ll also supply.

Growing advice is available for schools, and case studies  can be downloaded, which give a flavour of the fantastic achievements of the students.

 As you can see the children really enjoyed their growing experiences!