Simply Gardening for Schools - BBC Gardeners' World Live 2009!

BBC Gardeners’ World Live is this year to take place June 10 – 14th. Simply Gardening for Schools has been accepted by the Royal Horticultural Society to build a garden they have designed which is a children’s kitchen, science and wildlife garden to show how easy it is to teach children through gardening. The garden will be round in shape and have many features that include 5 raised vegetable beds, a loggery, bird tables, hedge hog houses, a greenhouse, a tool shed, shade seating area, fruit vines and fruit tress and much more.

After the show the whole garden will be carefully taken to pieces to be reconstructed at Leys Farm Junior School, Bottesford, North Lincolnshire as the school has been selected by the Royal Horticultural Society to be a partner school for them to teach teachers from all over North Lincolnshire how to teach children through Horticulture. So not only does the school get the perfect garden for their already established children’s gardening club, but there is a possibility that the garden could also be a “Gold Medal” winning one.

This is a fantastic story of not only teaching children at one of the country’s premier gardening shows but teaching them with the same garden back at their school. The Head Teacher of Leys Farm Juniors Mr. Ewart Gibbs and all of his staff and children are very excited at the prospect of this garden and all can’t wait to start the show. They also have the full support of the local council and LEA and they are equally excited about the prospect of a show garden coming back to North Lincolnshire to be fully used in a Leys Farm School.