Dig deep and get a taste for outdoors

gardening can bring people together, improve urban environments and encourage exercise and healthy eating.

Plus, well-tended front gardens of community schemes brighten everyone’s day.

One of the key categories is School Garden of the Year for the school that has created an enriching garden environment that involves the kids.

First prize is £2,500 plus 100 Calliope® plug plants. Second prize is £1,500 plus 100 plug plants; third place is £1,000 plus 100 plug plants; four runners-up will receive £500 and 100 Calliope® plug plants each.

Vying for the prize is St Oswald’s ALN Secondary in Glasgow. Teacher Bernadette Sweeney said: “Pupils have been motivated and engaged. They can now make the link between what they are growing and what they can cook in class from the produce.

“It has been a catalyst for growth, increasing parental engagement and partnership with our local community, and it has helped some of our less academically engaged pupils.”