Simple gardening club ideas

Autumn term

1. Apple tasting, pumpkin hollowing
2. Seed collecting - make your own seed packet and seed box
3. Sow hardy annuals, cornflowers, marigolds and sweet peas
4. Herbs – division and semi-ripe cuttings
5. Plant bulbs in pots
6. Bug hotels or bird feeders
7. Make a plastic bottle composter
8. Sow or plant onions and broad beans in pots
9. Take hard wood cuttings
10. Make willow stars and twiggy reindeers

Spring term

1. Build a light box for windowsill growing
2. Sow micro greens, salad and other early veg 
3. Chit potatoes – experiment with warmth/light/dark – bring back to school for planting in containers or plant at home if no space at school.
4. Make a pea propagator out of 2 litre bottles cut in half and sow sugar snap peas
5. Sow sunflowers in pots to take home – plant at home or return to plant in school
6. Herbs - learn to prick out parsley seedlings and other herbs, root cuttings of mint, and make a herb collection
7. Design a garden on a plate
8. Make labels or measuring sticks
9. Keep a garden journal or diary
10. Make slug pubs or slug guards from 2 litre bottles

Summer term

1. Sow pumpkins, tomatoes, peppers and herbs
2. Make a mini scarecrow
3. Make pizza pots - plant up a container with tomato, basil and chives
4. Make a wormery – do a soil feely test
5. Go bug hunting – learn about bugs, pest patrol and beneficial insects
6. Make a flower posy or a scented bouquet for a loved one
7. Make a watering device and learn how to water.
8. Take easy soft wood cuttings
9. Make a nectar bar container – plant up flowers that bees love
10. Make dyes from plants