THE Royal Horticultural Society has teamed up with TV gardening guru Alan Titchmarsh to get grown-ups growing as part of a nationwide event held in October.

Supported by Waitrose, the RHS has involved more than 13,500 schools across the UK in growing and gardening. However, Get Your Grown-ups Growing has developed from a diminutive project based in Yorkshire to now successfully involving a thousand schools.

The aim of the campaign is to encourage schools to create gardens while teaching children the skills of growing and learning outside the classroom.

Each October, schools are invited to hold the nationwide event so the local community can also be involved to help develop the school garden.

The RHS hopes to see 2,000 schools register for this year’s Get Your Grown-ups Growing event, doubling last year’s figure.

All registered schools will be automatically entered in a draw to win some very helpful gardening tools and materials.

Mr Titchmarsh said: “The fact that schools have really cottoned on to the benefits of gardening with their pupils is fantastic news, especially for children who are looking for different ways to learn.”

To register for this years event, schools must sign up to the RHS campaign for school gardening via www.rhs.org.uk/schoolgardening and click on the Get Your Grown-ups Growing button.