CYP Gardening Project

A charity based in the borough of Croydon, which aims to promote the holistic wellbeing of children & young people through gardening & related arts & crafts 🌱

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Well done boys 👍🏽👍🏽….potting up Lavender 🪴
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#younggardeners #childgardeners #childrensproject #gardeningforwellbeing #pottingup #lavender #pollinatorplants #aroma #saturdaysessions #outdoorfun #sensory

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A little blackberry picking for the afternoon!
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#blackberry #blackberrybush #fruitpicking #summerfruit #summerharvest #wednesdayvibes #younggardeners #childrensproject #freshfruit

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Sowing seeds for autumn/winter harvest 🌱, she’s an expert at this now 👌🏽
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#seedsowing #seeds #gardeningsession #younggardeners #childrensproject #handsonwork #gardeningforwellbeing #learnasyougrow #focus #sensoryexperience

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Right, let’s get to work 💪🏽
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#tools #wheelbarrow #shed #childrensproject #younggardener #outdoors #funtimes #rainorshine #digging #saturdaysession

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Eat as you work 🥒 👌🏽
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#cucumber #eatasyouwork #fresh #younggardeners #childrensproject #rainydays #saturdaysessions #funtimes #gardeningforwellbeing

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Sunflower - Black magic F1 😍😍. It was nice seeing these this morning on the children’s project site, these are a dwarf variety and absolutely beautiful
#sunflower #blackmagicf1 #flowers #childrenproject #fullbloom #dwarfvariety #colours #beauty #loveflowers #lovegardening

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It’s that time again! Strawberry propagation 🍓🍓 he did a great job 👍🏽 load more plants for next year!!
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#strawberry #strawberrypropagation #strawberryrunners #runners #raisedbedgardening #summerpropagation #sunnyafternoons #childrensproject #younggardeners #lovenature

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I think we have a budding actor here!…his response to tasting a nasturtium leaf 🌱 🤮😂
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#edibleflowers #younggardener #childrensproject #tastingnasturtium #fakefaint #youngactor #funtimes #laughter #acting #summersessions #gardeningforwellbeing

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Few things beat the sound of happy children 😀…fun making some seed bombs! 🌾🥀🌸
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#childrensproject #laughter #gardeningfun #seedbombs #wildflowers #saturdaysessions #sunnydays #lovegardening #gardeningforwellbeing #handsonlearning #sensoryplay

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A bit of plant propagation by cuttings #freeplants….This is Fatsia Japonica aka. false Castor oil plant
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#fatsiajaponica #plantpropagation #cuttings #meangreen #younggardeners #childrensproject #summersessions #ornamentalplants #indoorplant #outdoorplant #freeplants

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They started by painting birdhouses, then did some digging and finally onto harvesting some lovely salad potatoes 🥔 ….they did a great job!
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#childrensproject #younggardeners #gardeningforwellbeing #painting #birds #digging #harvesting #potatoes #summersessions

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Pretty flowers 😍😍 Mesembryanthemum…aka. Ice plant
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#Mesembryanthemum #iceplant #colours #summerbloom #pretty #flowerborder #bright #flowersinbloom #childrensgarden

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These two had their first session with us today and they loved it….favourite part…DIGGING!! ..and they did a good job too @veg360
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#younggardeners #gardeningproject #childrensgarden #digging #lovediggjng #energy #hardwork #saturdaysessions #funtimes

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Looking for the ripe cherries 🍒
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#climbingtrees #cherries #ripecherries #fruittrees #cherrytree #growyourown #younggardener #childrensproject #sunnysaturdays #noscreentime

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Putting some canes in to support the beans 👌🏽
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#beans #canes #bamboocanes #gardeningproject #younggardeners #beansupport #lovegardening #gardeningforwellbeing #childrenandyoungpeople #wonderfulwednesday #sunnyafternoons

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He did a great job helping to stake the mini fruit trees 🍎 🍐 🍏
This should have been done when they were being planted but better late than never!
#minifruittrees #apples #pears #staketree #younggardener #childrensproject #wednesdayvibes #lovegardening #gardeningforwellbeing

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We are so grateful to https://t.co/U4luS3ThAN for their generous donation of fantastic seed sowing kits for our children and young people #soseedkits #herbs #flowers #bees #sustainability #seedkits #marigolds #borage #chives #childrensproject #younggardeners #100%biodegradable

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The bees are loving the wildflowers on site...busy collecting pollen 🐝
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#wildflowers #bees #bee #pollen #pollenbaskets #beneficialinsects #childrensproject #pollinators #youbggardenera #younggardeners

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Eat what you grow 🍴
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#growyourown #eatwhatyougrow #growwhatyoueat #vegetables #healthy #eatwell #younggardeners #youngpeoplesproject #gardeningproject

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He used a dibber to make the holes and then popped in the beetroot seeds . Sometimes we sow in modules or trays, other times we sow direct!
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#beetrootseeds #beetroot #sowdirect #raisedbedgarden #youngpeoplesproject #youngpeoplesgarden #dibber #gardeningforwellbeing