If you want to get involved with gardening in your school, here are five good reasons to try a garden4me self-watering GIANT raised planter

Garden4me’s raised planters were designed with schools in mind. Their in-built reservoir takes away one of the biggest challenges for teachers who like to encourage gardening – the need to water plants during holidays so that their pupil’s work is not ruined whilst they are away. The reservoir encourages healthy and rapid plant growth enabling children to see their efforts come to fruition in the shortest amount of time. The reservoir typically needs topping up only every two-three weeks and is supported by rainwater capture.

Garden4me raised planters make the perfect ‘outdoor classroom’. As well as the fun and excitement of being outdoors, gardening in our raised planters provides the perfect opportunity for children to be creative, to work as part of a team, to communicate and develop their social skills with friends and teachers, and to learn about things they may not previously have known. Learning to plant seeds. watch them grow and develop is a great way for children to learn about their environment and how it works.

Surveys suggest that children think their fruit and vegetables arrive in packets from their supermarket and are not aware they can grow their own. The importance of understanding the positive nutritional as well as environmental benefits of growing your own food cannot be underestimated in helping to shape our children’s knowledge of the world they live in. How rewarding is it for them to grow tasty herbs or plant seeds and watch them grow into carrots, tomatoes or perhaps lettuce and then enjoy eating them?

Gardening is a great tool for teachers working with children with special educational needs. Our fun, brightly coloured, safe, easy to use planters support pupils with learning difficulties to develop their senses and the way they communicate with their peers and teachers. Gardening can help children to develop their cognitive learning skills and motor skills – and you don’t need a big space to do this – did you know you can create a full sensory garden in one of our planters? Why not request a factsheet?

Did you know if there were no bees there would be no jam or ketchup! Bees are essential to pollinate the plants we grow for food like fruit and tomatoes, but their population is in serious decline. Encourage and educate children to help by planting a ‘bee friendly’ garden with flowers that will attract not just bees but butterflies and other pollinators. You’ll be surprised how many flowers you can grow in a garden4me raised planter – and children will enjoy observing wildlife activity close up