Key dates
17th February – deadline for registering for 2010
Complete the registration form so your school receives its free growing kit in March 2010.
2nd March – chit your potatoes
Place your seed potatoes in an open egg box on a windowsill with the sprouts facing upwards for two weeks.
16th March – plant your potatoes
Plant your seed potatoes of the same variety in the two grow bags provided.
Visit the planting potatoes section for more information on planting your potatoes and download the lesson notes and resources to help children learn what a potato plant looks like and how potatoes grow.
16th March to 22nd June 2010 – growing your potatoes
There are 12 exciting potato-based lessons designed to support primary school curricula around the UK. You can use the lesson notes and resources to plan cross-curricular work around the theme of potatoes. Visit the teacher resource centre to learn more.
In addition there are colouring sheets, videos and games for the children.
22nd June 2010 - harvest your potatoes
Time to see what all your hard work has produced!
Harvest your grow bags and remember for a chance to win a range of fantastic prizes for your school all you need to do is submit the following in our competition entry form: For the competition rules click here.
Don’t forget to wash first, then weigh in grammes, and don’t forget - you must keep the crops separate.
- Submit the weight of your Rocket crop
- Submit the weight of your Vales Emerald crop
- Submit the weight of your largest potato
- Submit the number of potatoes in a crop from a single variety
First prize for the largest weight of a single variety is an allotment makeover that includes the design, build and plants to get you started.
There are runner-up prizes for the largest weight of a crop from a single variety by region. Prizes include Marmax eco-friendly playground furniture.
Sutton Seeds, care of The Sun newspaper, are offering £350 worth of Sutton Seed vouchers for the largest potato grown and the highest number of potatoes in a crop from a single variety.
23rd June 2010 – print certificate for your classroom
Download a certificate to mark your achievement and display in your classroom. certificate.pdf
22nd June to 1st July – remember to enter the competition
Click here for the competition entry form.
16th July – winners announced
For previous lists of winners click here.
COMPETITION RULES
In order to enter the competition the crop must be grown in accordance with the rules.