Hundreds of local school children visited Squire’s Garden Centres at the end of March to take part in a “Grow Your Own Chips” session.

This initiative began because Squire’s believe it’s so important that children learn where their food comes from, so they invited local schools to come along for 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 enjoyed drinks and biscuits after their hard work, and got to take their pot of potatoes home.

They’ll be bringing their pots back to Squire’s in June to see who has grown the heaviest potatoes, and to see if any of them have grown more than gardening expert Charlie Dimmock, who did this very activity at Squire’s in Woking in March.

Then each school will 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.