CHILDREN from Badshot Lea Infant School visited Squire’s Garden Centre at the end of March to take part in a ‘Grow Your Own Chips’ session.

This initiative began because Squire’s believe it is important that children learn where their food comes from, so they invited local schools to come along for some fun and interactive potato planting sessions.

Each child was given a brightly coloured pot, compost, and three chitted potatoes, which they were shown how to plant and look after.

The children got to take their pot of potatoes home but will be bringing them back to Squire’s in June to see who has grown the heaviest potatoes.

They’ll also see if any of them have grown more than gardening expert Charlie Dimmock, who did this very activity on March 17.

Each school will then get their potatoes turned into chips in Squire’s Café Bar (and get to eat them of course), and the winning child will also get a special goody bag.