Thank You

Sometimes it's nice just to be able to write a post in which we say 'Thank You'. This is the first of such entries.

Firstly to our local garden centre Garsons Farm in Esher. They have sponsored our Autumn Vegetable Garden by providing £250.00 for us to spend in store. We've already used some of the money to buy the soil for our potager garden and some new planters. Garsons delivered everything to us on Friday and the children have filled the raised beds ready for planting.

Alison Jones is their hugely knowledgable "Planteria Supervisor" who spent ages advising us about the best position for all our 200 vegetable seedlings.
Ben Thompson is the Marketing Manager at Garsons and has been a terrific support. A representative from Garsons will be visiting Milbourne Lodge in the near future to see how we are progressing. Thank you to all the team at Garsons Farm www.garsons.co.uk

Last week I found a wonderful online garden planner and plant database. It's called GrowVeg. I contacted them via email for customer support late one evening and was astounded to receive a reply from Jeremy at GrowVeg within minutes. He continued the dialogue via email for the next 48 hours until the programme was successfully up and running and we had 'tweaked' everything to match our requirements. It transpires that Jeremy Dore has been a teacher too : so knows how much planning goes into introducing software into the classroom.

Pupils are now planning the planting of the individual vegetables using the GrowVeg Garden Planner. Thank you to the GrowVeg team for their patience and advice - and for a wonderful programme. www.growveg.com