It’s that time of year again… Spring is on its way! And it gives us great pleasure to open our Oxfordshire Seeds for Schools campaign for 2022!
This a fantastic opportunity to engage your children with nature and develop their green fingers, nurturing them into little gardeners. Nurseries, pre-schools, primary schools and childminders are all welcome to participate. We understand that school life is a little different at the moment, but we are always keen to encourage little ones to get outside and get growing. So, no matter how you would like to use this opportunity, we will still be running our brilliant competition.
What to expect:
Yarnton Home & Garden will provide a large pack of mixed seeds, compost, labels and a seed tray to each participating school who will return their home grown items for judging this summer.
Important dates for your diary:
Entries open: Friday 4th February.
Entries close: Sunday 20th February.
Collection opens: Monday 28th February.
Collection ends: Friday 1st April.
Judging day: Thursday 23rd June.
To enter your interest, please send the below details to hello@yarntonhomegarden.co.uk before Sunday 20th February:
Contact Name:
Contact Number:
Contact Email Address:
School Name:
Judging criteria
We will be judging your entries on the following:
- Magic Garden (flowers)
- Delicious picnic basket (fruit and vegetables)
- Tallest sunflower
We look forward to working with you, seeing your wonderful plants and recognising your hard work!
Melissa Dryden, Nursery teacher, Little Tommy’s Nursery, Kidlington
“We are really grateful to Yarnton Garden Centre for our free growing kit! Looking at plant life cycles and observing changes in nature are important in our understanding the world part of early years teaching. The children have enjoyed planting their seeds, looking after the emerging plants and observing what happens, both the successes and unexpected problems! We are looking forward to flowers and (hopefully) harvests a bit later in the year.”