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Give it a grow aims to encourage pupils to get stuck into gardening, and composting. Whether you’ve got an established school garden or are just considering digging one over, join give it a grow and let pupils work towards seasonal goals to keep enthusiasm throughout the year. Winners receive a certificate and their photo in our hall of fame!

Join the give it a grow scheme and your school will receive a free rolypig composter, and rolypiglet food waste caddy to help make your garden more beautiful! one rolypig and one rolypiglet per school.

Any class or group within the school can join, or feel free to join as a whole school and divide the challenges between classes.

There are 15 categories but you don’t have to enter them all! To enter a category, simply detail your prize plant in your garden journal. Please remember to include a photo of the plant, and the measurement if applicable. Submit your garden journal by 11 November 2011, all categories will be judged from journal entries by 1 December 2011.
Categories: Knobbliest carrot Longest carrot (not including the leaves) Longest runner bean Largest pumpkin (measurement should be taken around fattest part) Best pumpkin carving (anything from a self portrait to a landscape!) Most number of peas in a pod Heaviest onion (shake the mud off first!) Ugliest vegetable (any vegetable can be entered, just grow it ugly!) Most awe inspiring giant vegetable (any kind of super human specimen!) Best vegetable basket (4 types of vegetable displayed in a basket) Vegetable monster (attach 1 or more vegetables together to make a scary vegetable monster) Tallest sunflower (measure from soil to top of head) Neatest garden plot Prettiest wildflower patch Best compost (rich, dark and moist - food for your garden) Each entrant will also be entered into best garden journal. This can be electronic or hard copy; you might like to include how you grew your plants, any problems you encountered, what you most enjoyed, how you worked together etc. (presentation, and attention to detail are important here, not necessarily the number of categories that are entered.)

Page last updated on: 17/02/2011