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Article: Children's gardening lesson full of delights ; Many youngsters would turn their noses up at the very mention of green vegetables.
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- Express & Echo (Exeter UK)
- Article date:
- July 3, 2009
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Many youngsters would turn their noses up at the very mention of
green vegetables.
But pupils happily tucked into peas straight from the pod grown
in their garden at Clyst St Mary Primary School.
The garden, on a patch of land that was previously just grass,
has been up and running since the start of the spring term and is
now in full bloom.
Green-fingered parents and a member of staff have been running a
lunchtime gardening club.
They have been planting, watering and harvesting vegetables,
including peas, potatoes, lettuces, runner beans, beetroot and
sweetcorn.
There is a mini greenhouse, where tomato plants are grown, and
parents and children are also growing pumpkins, which they hope ...