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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright: Original post fromTHe School Vegetable Patch http://msgmedia.blogspot.co.uk/ author by S I Garrett</div>Sue Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08164518448098182276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3478035047710821059.post-8489058615557734392016-02-22T17:14:00.003+00:002016-02-22T17:14:57.202+00:00Making garden furniture from recycled materials<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If your garden is anything like mine then it is probably too wet to get any gardening done, If so what about having a go at making some garden furniture from recycled materials such as wooden pallets. It would make an interesting design and make project.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are ideas on<a href="https://billyoh.com/garden-furniture/" target="_blank"> this website </a>that Ms Russell's girls found. Thank you girls.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You may be interested in a set of growing guides that I put together a while ago in the form of mini websites.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Each follows the life cycle of each plant from seed to harvest with illustrated information about how to grow. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The language is kept as simple as possible to make it as widely accessible as possible but would be equally suitable to adults starting out on growing the own vegetables as well as for use with children.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you’re looking to tear your children away from the XBOX or
PlayStation, gardening could be the answer. A great choice for little ones is
container gardening, which involves sowing and maintaining plants in one pot. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are lots of benefits to container gardening. If you
live in a city or a built-up area, the size of your garden could be limited.
Regardless of your outdoor space, this option allows every home, from built-up
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rather than giving them the whole garden to contend with, the
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work on. It is something they can call their own and be proud of.</span></div>
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minimal equipment. All you need is a few plant pots, some soil and seeds and
you are good to go. Although these may be difficult to find at your local
supermarket now, specialist gardening retailers stock a great range of essentials
all year round. Alternatively you could find what you are looking for <a href="http://ossettweather.com/glallotments.co.uk/shopping.html">online.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just like your kids, you’ll be really proud of their work
and want to show off the pots in your garden. Placing them in an overgrown,
unkempt garden will </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3478035047710821059" name="_GoBack" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">not do them justice though. While the
wild winter weather is here, it may not be wise to start your garden
renovations right now, but once the spring arrives, it will be the perfect time
to transform your garden for summer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Trying to renovate your garden yourself can be a lot of hard
work, especially if you have to fit it around your day job. However, specialist
gardening companies like <a href="http://www.yougarden.com/" target="_blank">YouGarden</a>
can take this stress away from you, transforming even the smallest of spaces.
Take a look at their <a href="http://www.yourgarden.co.uk/Our-portfolio.html">portfolio</a>
and see for yourself.</span><br />
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have to wait for the good weather to roll around and can start doing it right
away. Take a look at this <a href="http://theschoolvegetablepatch.co.uk/page60.html">guide to gardening in
December</a> for what you can plant now, and move your containers into a
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright: Original post fromTHe School Vegetable Patch http://msgmedia.blogspot.co.uk/ author by S I Garrett</div>Sue Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08164518448098182276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3478035047710821059.post-41898609003912887712013-11-07T09:28:00.004+00:002013-11-07T09:28:59.594+00:00Having trouble finding gardening tools for children?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you are considering a gardening project with children either at school or with your own child it is important that you choose tools suitable for the age and child of the child. Don't expect a child to become enthusiastic about gardening if they are struggling with either oversized tools or ones more suitable for making sand castles on the beach.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.theschoolvegetablepatch.co.uk/page11.html" target="_blank">On my website - here - </a> I have some advice on choosing child friendly tools.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Spotty Green Frog is a site that specialises in providing<a href="http://spottygreenfrog.co.uk/Gardening-for-Children/Gardening-for-Schools/c-1-53-105/?af=1859" target="_blank"> gardening packs for schools</a> as well as<a href="http://spottygreenfrog.co.uk/Gardening-for-Children/Childrens-Garden-Tools/c-1-53-182/?af=1859" target="_blank"> individual items and gift packs for your own child</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They also provide kits and equipment to support other gardening related activities <a href="http://spottygreenfrog.co.uk/Gardening-for-Children/c-1-53/?af=1859" target="_blank">click here.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has launched a new project to inspire children to grow fruit trees at school. The project was launched launched during the new Channel 4 series<a href="http://www.channel4.com/programmes/river-cottage-to-the-core" target="_blank"> </a></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.channel4.com/programmes/river-cottage-to-the-core" target="_blank">River Cottage to the Core</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The offer of free fruit trees to schools produced such a huge demand that the trees had all been snapped up quickly after the announcement was aired during the first programme.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you missed out on the free trees FruitShare has developed a project called <a href="http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/FruitShare/start/?af=fruitshare" target="_blank">Crowdfunder</a> designed to help you raise funds in order to buy your trees.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Fruitshare website also has produced a series of videos to take you through the process of growing fruit and also how to use your crops. <a href="http://fruitshare.channel4.com/advice/" target="_blank">Click here</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Woodland Trust have also joined the project and have produced a <a href="http://fruitshare.s3.amazonaws.com/fruitshare/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/FS_tree_download_v2.pdf" target="_blank">free guide </a>to advise on planting and growing your trees.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They also offer <a href="http://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/en/moretreesmoregood/resources/Pages/free-resources.aspx" target="_blank">free resources</a> </span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">covering everything from planting guides, twig ID sheets, teacher support, pupil worksheets, fascinating facts and curriculum links.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The start of a new school years isn't exactly the best time to start a gardening project but for one gardening related focus why not concentrate on </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the birds that visit your patch?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When I was teaching I was amazed that my class of 11 year olds didn't even notice the birds, that were all too easily visible almost every day of their lives, let alone be able to name any. To them the word bird and sparrow seemed synonymous.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then one of our cleaners referred to a pied wagtail as a baby magpie and was surprised to learn that young birds were not tiny replicas of their parents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Why not have a go at plugging this knowledge gap and maybe triggering a lifelong interest in watching the birds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are many bird related garden activities that you can carry out through winter. <a href="http://theschoolvegetablepatch.co.uk/science.html" target="_blank">This page of my website has some idea</a>s.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've also put together <a href="http://ossettweather.com/glallotments.co.uk/idbirds.html" target="_blank">some pages on my gardening website</a> that includes a printable sheet of photographs to help you teach children (and adults) how to identify some of our most common garden birds. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you don't work in a school then try a bird related gardening project with your own children or maybe you would like to be better at identifying our common birds yourself. All the photographs are taken in my garden, I always find real photographs are much more helpful than artist's illustrations. I hope my photos help.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When I was teaching some part of my summer school break (notice that I don't use holiday) was spent planning for the coming term.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you are planning work on a school gardening project then you may find <a href="http://theschoolvegetablepatch.co.uk/page66.html" target="_blank">this area of my website</a> to be of use It covers various aspects involved in the planning of a school garden area whether it is a vegetable plot, a sensory garden or a haven for wild life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It also covers choosing equipment and things to grow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you already have a school vegetable patch then the section covering<a href="http://theschoolvegetablepatch.co.uk/page57.html" target="_blank"> what to do in September may be helpful</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then you will need to consider how gardening activities can be linked into other curriculum areas so try looking at the section devoted to <a href="http://theschoolvegetablepatch.co.uk/page62.html" target="_blank">building curriculum links.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You may be planning to incorporate different opportunities for your pupils/students to share their literacy skills. Being a published writer is very motivational and many schools now have their own blogs and websites. If you don't want to go that far - why not get the children to prepare a guest post for this blog or an article to submit for inclusion into<a href="http://theschoolvegetablepatch.co.uk/page4.html" target="_blank"> this section of my website</a>. Obviously I can't include articles from every child in your class but you could whittle down submissions by having an in house choosing session first. Young children could submit a group post of either short phrases or art work linked to their growing experiences.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Any gardening related topic will be considered but you may prefer to <a href="mailto:schoolveg@hotmail.com" target="_blank">email me </a>first to check whether your choice of subject matter is appropriate. Please note that I will not include photos of individual children (or full names) and schools should ensure that any group photo has the appropriate parental permissions to be published. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You might have seen recent news<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> about</span><span lang="EN"> </span>the suggestion of <span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2361552/Ban-packed-lunches-children-eat-healthy-school-dinners-headteachers-urged-drive-free-meals-11s.html?ub=true&ubid=51e1dc599ac25ee017000093&ubtoken=niDVKCOZSh3uLx8" target="_blank">banning packed meals</a></span>
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successful this will be, I strongly agree that eating proper cooked meals at
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One thing that can help schools to
provide these quality meals within their current budget is school gardening,
which is also a fantastic activity for the pupils to learn about the
environment, plant biology and just how much work goes into preparing the food
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of the most effective ways to
motivate children in any topic is by giving responsibility. Like every human
being, when given individual or shared responsibility, children will feel
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Teachers can offer each kid, (or
if space is limited a group), a small garden bed that only belongs to him/her/them,
and give them the right and responsibility to choose their own seeds or bulbs
from a list of common vegetables. The variety of choices and their individual
care needs can also increase the knowledge the pupils gain from gardening, since
each child can be given the chance to give a short presentation to the rest of
the class about what they chose to plant and what that plant needed to grow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Teachers can also allow children
to make their own watering, pest monitoring and weeding plans. If they’re
older, you can even carry out chemistry experiments to determine the soil type
of their individual area to better help them choose <a href="http://www.coblands.co.uk/knowledge-base/plant-finder">what to plant</a>. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From watering cans to spades, bring
them into art class and let children do what they like with them. Children are extremely creative and when
you’re 10 years old, gardening is ten times better when you have a
rainbow-coloured shovel to do it with!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Teachers can also plan art or
biology lessons for the students to draw what they think their plants would
look like after various amounts of time. This can keep the children excited and
interested in gardening after they’ve planted their seeds and are while waiting
for results, which
is when they are most likely to lose interest.<span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are many ways of rewarding
during the course of gardening, and it is not always necessary to choose the best
gardeners. Hand out rewards for first-to-flower, tastiest tomatoes,
best-maintained garden and even most creative vegetable arrangement!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let the parents know about your
school gardening events and invite them in when it’s time to harvest. Make that
day a big event, and show off everyone’s work in front of all the parents,
teachers and students.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Also, let them enjoy the final
result for longer. Make a photography book for the flowers or plants they
gardened and put up a board in the dinner hall announcing exactly whose
vegetables the school is eating each day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By this, your pupils will feel
their hard work is being valued and gain a sense of achievement. Next time you
ask who wants to garden with you, you might see an awful lot of arms being
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>About the Author: Jessie
Wang is a freelance writer who blogs about gardening, education and leading an
eco-friendly lifestyle. You can contact her by </i><i><a href="mailto:jessiewang0909@gmail.com" target="_blank">email</a></i></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.</span></i></div>
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Registration is open so you can order up to three free kits
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That’s the conclusion of a study commissioned by leading gardening charity The Royal Horticultural Society – and with the <a href="http://www.rhs.org.uk/News/Gardening-at-school" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3f3f3f;"><span style="-webkit-transition: 0.3s ease-in-out; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition: 0.3s ease-in-out;">subject to be potentially included in the National Curriculum from September 2014</span></span>,</a> it looks like the next generation might leave school with the skills to tend a garden and grow their own vegetables.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If approved, the revised National Curriculum will see all pupils between the ages of five and 14 taught how to “cultivate plants for practical purposes, such as food or displays”, as well as how to plan and prepare healthy and wholesome meals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 15.984375px;">By creating a wild life garden you are not just providing a much needed habitat for our native wild life but you are also creating an outdoor classroom where children can learn about the creatures that share our outdoor spaces. Children have a healthy fascination when it comes to other living things and enjoy watching and learning about all types of creatures. Using an outdoor classroom you can ensure that this learning takes place with respect for the creatures being studied.</span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: normal;"><span style="line-height: 15.984375px;"><a href="http://theschoolvegetablepatch.co.uk/wildlifegarden.html" target="_blank">I have written an article here which may help if you are thinking of setting up a wildlife garden either in school ground or in your own garden.</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Do you have connection with a school garden? I so would you or your pupils like to be a guest blogger on this blog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All it needs is for you to produce a short post with at least one photo on the theme of school gardening and I will consider posting it here <a href="http://theschoolvegetablepatch.co.uk/page4.html" target="_blank">or on my website here </a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When I was teaching I was often amazed by how few garden birds my class of eleven year old children could recognise. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Each year the RSPB organise a series of <a href="http://www.rspb.org.uk/schoolswatch/" target="_blank">Birdwatch events</a> some of which are directed at schools. These events provide an ideal opportunity to familiarise children with the species of birds that share their local environment. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;">This year, <a href="http://www.rspb.org.uk/schoolswatch/" target="_blank">Big Schools' Birdwatch</a> will take place in the two weeks from </span><strong style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;">21 January - 1 February 2013</strong><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;">. You can carry out a Birdwatch in any hour within those weeks.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;">The RSPB provide a range of resources geared to different age groups from the under fives to fourteen year olds.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">When working with younger children who may soon lose interest and would be unable to sit a watch for a full hour you could organise small groups of children with an adult to 'work' in short shifts.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">If you are a parent and would like to take part in a Bird Watch event then you could enter the <a href="http://www.rspb.org.uk/birdwatch/" target="_blank">Big Garden Birdwatch </a>with you child. This takes place on the weekend of 27 and 27 January. Again you just need an hour to spare. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">If you start observing the birds now you may be able to judge when the birds are most likely to visit and time your activity for the to ensure that the children have something to record.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A sensory garden incorporates plants that stimulate all five senses, taste, touch, sight, sound and smell. This type pf garden is ideal when working with children especially if some children have some sensory impairment.</span><br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright: Original post fromTHe School Vegetable Patch http://msgmedia.blogspot.co.uk/ author by S I Garrett</div>Sue Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08164518448098182276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3478035047710821059.post-16533602360971490752012-02-19T18:45:00.000+00:002012-02-19T18:45:24.815+00:00Win a Vegetable seeds Field Guide<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On my Gren lane Allotments blog, back in October, I wrote a review of <a href="http://glallotments.blogspot.com/2011/10/pictorial-guide-to-seeds-of-world.html" target="_blank">The Pictorial Guide to Seeds of the World by Terry Woodger </a></span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well Terry has now produced a series of five field guides:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GSBPe11CItk/T0EVJW5zoWI/AAAAAAAAMoM/Fu0cdI5zQ8E/s1600/allotment+Feb+2012+156.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="396" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GSBPe11CItk/T0EVJW5zoWI/AAAAAAAAMoM/Fu0cdI5zQ8E/s640/allotment+Feb+2012+156.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Each field guide focuses on one of five groups of seeds - vegetables, fruit, herbs and spices, garden flowers and trees, shrubs and vines and is basically an abridged version of the book I reviewed previously which covers all these seed groups. <a href="http://glallotments.blogspot.com/2011/10/pictorial-guide-to-seeds-of-world.html" target="_blank">To read the complete review click here</a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Like their big brother each guide contains information on collecting, cleaning and storing seeds and each guide has 100 or more colour, scaled photographs of seeds just like the ones in the larger book.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you read <a href="http://glallotments.blogspot.com/2011/10/pictorial-guide-to-seeds-of-world.html" target="_blank">the main review </a>then basically the same applies to the smaller field guides so I don't want to go over the same ground and repeat myself here.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So why am I mentioning these guides - well, Terry has sent me a set of the five guides which I have decided to offer as prizes in five different competitions. I'm going to start with the Vegetable Seeds guide as I think that will be the one that will most appeal to most of my blog visitors.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Each of the field guides is available on Amazon at at cost of £19.95 so these are prizes well worth having.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm going to run each of the competitions on both this and Our Plot on Green lane Allotments blog and each competition will focus on the group of seeds featured in the prize guide.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>So what do you have to do?</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Look at the edited pictures of vegetables and try and identify each one. Although they may not all be technically vegetables we use them all as vegetables. The photo may be of any part of the vegetables not always the part that we eat. The closing date for the competition is 31 March 2012 The winner will be chosen at random from the list of those who get all the answers correct. In the unlikely event that no-one gets all the answers right the ones with the most correct answers will go into the 'hat'! You may only enter once!</span></span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Don't post your answers in the comments area as if you do everyone will see them, <a href="http://glallotments.blogspot.com/p/vegetable-field-guide-competition.html" target="_blank">I've set up an entry form here</a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To enter the competition <a href="http://glallotments.blogspot.com/p/vegetable-field-guide-competition.html" target="_blank">click here</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The competition form is a bit of an experiment and so to make sure that your entry has registered can you leave a comment on this post to tell me you have sent in an entry so I can check that it has worked - don't want you to miss out!</span></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have had no option than to make this move which has involved a great amount of work but the web management system that I was using is being discontinued. This is the second time this has happened and so I am now moving away from the web management idea and I will now have more control over the website location.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whilst carrying out the removal work I have also taken the opportunity to make some changes and to add some information. Additional ideas have also been added to the curriculum links section.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Please take a few minutes to browse and also let me know if you find any broken links or errors which I will be happy to repair.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Would you also pass on this information to any teachers that you know as I don't want them to lose access to any classroom resources they may regularly use.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">PS My other website is also currently on the move. It isn't completed yet but is <a href="http://ossettweather.com/glallotments.co.uk/" target="_blank">here</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright: Original post fromTHe School Vegetable Patch http://msgmedia.blogspot.co.uk/ author by S I Garrett</div>Sue Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08164518448098182276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3478035047710821059.post-64924950996946256012012-02-06T16:30:00.000+00:002012-02-06T16:30:55.529+00:00Free Raised Beds for Schools from WoodBlocx<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Michael Clarke</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Head Gardener</span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright: Original post fromTHe School Vegetable Patch http://msgmedia.blogspot.co.uk/ author by S I Garrett</div>Sue Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08164518448098182276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3478035047710821059.post-55174746518636675752012-01-25T10:08:00.003+00:002012-01-28T10:56:56.556+00:00Win £100 to spend of equipment for school<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Spotty Green Frog are running a writing/drawing competition for schools and are offering prizes of:</span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">£100 for your school to spend at<a href="http://www.spottygreenfrog.co.uk/writing-competition-for-children/a-101/?af=1859" target="_blank"> www.SpottyGreenFrog.co.uk</a> plus a prize for you if you win a category.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">£25 for your school to spend at<a href="http://www.spottygreenfrog.co.uk/writing-competition-for-children/a-101/?af=1859" target="_blank"> www.SpottyGreenFrog.co.uk</a> plus a prize for you if you are runner up in a category.</span></li>
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</ul><div><a href="http://www.spottygreenfrog.co.uk/writing-competition-for-children/a-101/?af=1859" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XYz3f6Bs6r4/Tx_PwDgNedI/AAAAAAAAMis/lVKTINrVZeg/s1600/comp.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The categories are:</span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">• Nursery – Louis the Frog – picture only!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">• Reception – Year 1 – Louis the Frog has an Adventure</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">• Years 2 – 3 – Louis the Frog Plays a Joke</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">• Years 4 – 6 – Louis the Frog – a Mystery Story</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Louis the frog is the logo character of the company. <a href="http://www.spottygreenfrog.co.uk/writing-competition-for-children/a-101" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;"></span></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Work can be submitted from home or school.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Spotty Green Frog offer a wide range of products for primary schools and children at home. This includes gardening and cooking equipment specially designed for children as well as many other educational toys and resources including for indoor play, outdoor activities and resources.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Take a look at there website to see what your children could win - <a href="http://www.spottygreenfrog.co.uk/writing-competition-for-children/a-101/?af=1859" target="_blank">competition details and entry form can be obtained from here</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And if you do win let me know as I'd love one of my visitors to win!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright: Original post fromTHe School Vegetable Patch http://msgmedia.blogspot.co.uk/ author by S I Garrett</div>Sue Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08164518448098182276noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3478035047710821059.post-23343957112060066342012-01-02T11:21:00.005+00:002012-01-02T11:50:44.062+00:00Time to think of seeds.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you plan to buy seeds from one of the many seed companies then you need to start thinking of what you want to buy now - that is if you haven't already.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tbeMi6gtBDA/TwGPV0hrTzI/AAAAAAAAMaY/VUxVHC2Ym78/s1600/seeds+030.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tbeMi6gtBDA/TwGPV0hrTzI/AAAAAAAAMaY/VUxVHC2Ym78/s1600/seeds+030.JPG" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You may want to involve the children and also add a real life project to your curriculum.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Depending on the age of the children these are just some ideas:</span></div><br />
<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Integrate into the ICT curriculum</b><br />
<ol style="text-align: left;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Children to browse the seed catalogues online (<a href="http://theschoolvegetablepatch.schools.officelive.com/seeds.aspx" target="_blank">there are direct links to some on my website here</a>) You may decide to give them some particular seeds or varieties to search for on the Internet (Gives practice of using links and icons and also searching using key words etc)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Search for seeds that fulfil a particular criteria e.g. can be sown in a given month </span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Compare different varieties of seed for a particular type of plant and try to decide which would be best for growing, within the school calendar - you don't want a harvest in August, varieties that are easy to grow or produce reliable crops, if space is an issue then varieties that don't grow too large. </span></li>
</ol><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Link to the maths and ICT curriculum</b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> -</span><br />
<div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Compare the prices of seeds offered by various seed companies - many give the number of seeds in each packet so the children could use a spreadsheet to work out the cost per 10/100 seeds etc. For younger children this could be set up for them so they only input data and older children can set up their own spreadsheet. Price per pack/formula to cost price on 1 seed/ formula to cost 10/100 seeds etc.)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Use a spreadsheet to cost buying seeds from different companies - not forgetting delivery charges - you could set different pairs or groups of children the task of researching a particular seed company</span></li>
</ol><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you can think of other ideas then please add them by posting a comment.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Help in choosing varieties and types of plants that are suitable for growing with children and in particular in a school environment is given on my website <a href="http://theschoolvegetablepatch.schools.officelive.com/vegetable.aspx" target="_blank">click here</a></span></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright: Original post fromTHe School Vegetable Patch http://msgmedia.blogspot.co.uk/ author by S I Garrett</div>Sue Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08164518448098182276noreply@blogger.com0