Crafty creative ways to water your plants!

By Cultivation Street Staff | June 20, 2018

Watering cans and hosepipes are the backbone of any gardener’s watering kit, but there are plenty of other creative ways you can water your plants. Here are some crafty ideas to help water your plants, both indoors and out, that the children can help you make!  Bottle sprinkler This crafty watering technique is cheap, brilliant…

Adding Summer colours to borders

By Cultivation Street Staff | June 20, 2018

If your borders are less than beautiful now that the glorious summer months are here, don’t panic – there are plenty of quick-fix and longer-lasting options to brighten them up! Adding colour is so easily done, and it’s super-easy to choose your favourites at this time of year, now that summer-flowering varieties are in full…

Pilot project offering £500 to schools takes off!

By Cultivation Street Staff | June 19, 2018

The Moseley in Bloom schools project Moseley in Bloom has a new initiative to develop partnerships with local schools. The team at Moseley in Bloom want to encourage pupils, teachers, parents and governors to work together to create and sustain ‘greening’ projects on school sites. Their hope is that these projects will inspire pupils to…

Goldthorpe Primary School

By Cultivation Street Staff | June 15, 2018

Introduction The Goldthorpe Primary School in Barnsley, South Yorkshire has a very special asset – their very own school allotment, where the pupils are able to take part in growing plants and learning about the natural world. The allotment has become an important resource which is tied into the curriculum and has also become a…

Our Lady of the Wayside Primary School

By Cultivation Street Staff | June 15, 2018

What does the community garden bring to the school? The community garden at Our Lady of the Wayside Primary School has been a hands-on experience that teaches pupils about growing vegetables & flowers. Produce grown in the garden is used in the school kitchen for school dinners and pupils are able to take some home…

Wilmcote C of E Primary School

By Cultivation Street Staff | June 15, 2018

Introduction Wilmcote C E Primary School is running its own community garden, where the children decide among themselves what flowers, vegetables and features they want to see in their garden. It gives the pupils somewhere to go that is their own and also educates them about nature and the growing process. “A great sense of…

Steve Fry – The Gardens Group

By Cultivation Street Staff | June 15, 2018

What does being an Ambassador mean to you? The ambassador role is a great compliment to environmental and community projects that are part of my day to day job within the Gardens Group. The Cultivation Street Ambassador scheme allows me to give away even more goodies and helps the groups that I work with maintain…

Small Space Competition Entry

By Cultivation Street Staff | June 14, 2018

Please answer all the questions below to enter the Small Spaces Category of our competition. The deadline is 5th August!  *Top tip – copy and paste these questions into a Microsoft Word document so you can keep coming back to it at your leisure as this form will not auto-save the text you have entered.…

Front Garden Competition Entry

By Cultivation Street Staff | June 14, 2018

 Please answer all the questions below to enter the Front Gardens Category of our competition. The deadline is 5th August!  *Top tip – copy and paste these questions into a Microsoft Word document so you can keep coming back to it at your leisure as this form will not auto-save the text you have entered.…

Colour Your Life Competition Entry

By Cultivation Street Staff | June 14, 2018

 Please answer all the questions below to enter the Colour Your Life Category of our competition. The deadline is 5th August!  *Top tip – copy and paste these questions into a Microsoft Word document so you can keep coming back to it at your leisure as this form will not auto-save the text you have…