Le Friquet gets ’em growing

Tuesday 29th March 2011, 2:29PM BST.

Anya Mancini, left, and Carmel Turian choose their tomato plants for the challenge. (Picture by Peter Frankland, 1115781)

HUNDREDS of primary schoolchildren will be taking part in a tomato growing scheme over the next two weeks.

Le Friquet Garden Centre has invited 14 local primary schools to take part in planting sessions, aimed at encouraging more youngsters to learn how to grow.

The sessions are part of the Blue Diamond Group’s school support programme, which was launched in 2009.

Group marketing manager Kay Leslie said the aim of the tomato initiative was to help the children understand where their food came from.

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vic gamble

March 29, 2011 at 5:43 pm

…excellent, commendable, but not innovative..Nigel Clarke has been using his business at Queux Garden Centre to introduce children to all sorts of projects incorporating growing for many years…so credit where credit is due.

I only slot this one in as I know Nigel would be too modest to say so himself.

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