Table of Contents

6 September: * Risk assess the school garden * Write a school policy * Test your soil * Harvesting fruit, vegetables and lavendar * Pruning - use of tools * Hyacinths for Christmas 8 October * Making leaf mould * Taking cuttings * Planting broad beans * Planting a layered pot * Planting raspberry canes * Plan a horticultural show 10 November * Collecting seeds * Design and make a seed packet * Make recycled paper seed strips * Pot up strawberry runners * Splitting perennials * Planting onions and garlic * Planting bulbs in the ground 12 December * Make a willow Star * Decorate an evergreen tree * Plant a winter arrangement * Rhubarb and herb planting 13 January * Planning your garden and crop rotation * Build a pop bottle greenhouse * Plant a living willow structure * Making birdfeeders and bird boxes * Plant a basketry willow growing bed * RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch 14 February * Enrich the soil: make compost * Tree and hedge planting * How to sow seeds indoors * Garden design - planning and planting a themed garden * Make a wormery 16 March * Planting 'Bag for Life' potatoes * Plug plants and potting on * Design and make raised beds * Plant an asparagus bed * Design and dig a pond * Herbacious perennials 18 April * Sowing seeds outdoors * Hardening off and planting out * Design and make plant labels * Dead head all spring bulbs * Raise chickens from eggs * Plant a wildflower meadow * Design and make a bug house 20 May * Plant an instant allotment * Thinning out * Sowing seeds outdoors * Plant a summer container * Harvesting rhubarb * Tackle slugs and snails * Feeding plants 22 June * Decorating the school garden - dried willow butterflies and flowers, mosaics and murals * Raise and release butterflies * Make a herby salad * Make nettle soup * Thinning fruit 24 July * Make a garlic or onion plait * Photosynthesis - make a grass mural * Undertake a wildlife survey * Bumble bees * Make a Minestrone 25 Summer : Holidays . How to keep your school garden going over the summer holidays 26 - 29 Setting up a School Gardening Club . School Gardening Club annual programme - term by term 30 Practical considerations 31 Resources

About the Author

Clare Revera is a primary teacher with fifteen years experience in school grounds development in Wales. She has been the winner of the pretigious RHS Greenfingers Challenge, the Wales in Bloom title and the National Farmers Union Rural School Teacher of the Year. She runs Out to Learn, which provides training, consultancy work and pupil workshops, relating to school grounds, in all kinds of schools.