GREEN-FINGERED youngsters from the Rosary School sold some of their produce at Waitrose recently.

The event was part of a national initiative run by the supermarket, which has a store in London Road, Stroud, which encouraed children to grow their own produce over the summer months in the hope they will learn more about where food comes from.

The Grow and Sell initiative began at the start of the summer, when schools across the country were given seeds by Waitrose stores to get their vegetable patches up and running.

Now they are in the second phase of the scheme, which sees the children being invited to their local stores to sell their home-grown produce.

The gardening club at the Rosary School in Stroud was the first group of youngsters invited to the London Road store on Saturday to sell what they had grown.

“Unfortunately we have had a very cold summer so not all of our seeds have survived,” explained Jennifer Withe, who runs the gardening club.

“However our school garden has some fantastic plants and flowers from all over the world, so we took them too to sell as well.”

The Rosary School garden is also used for various lessons, including science and geography, and was also visited by Britain in Bloom judges when they visited the town in July.

“It is a fantastic tool for all the pupils and teachers at the school,” said head teacher, Rosy Savory.

The Rosary School gardening club meets every Tuesday from 3.15pm between March and December during term time.

This term the gardening club will be designing and painting a mural on the shed in the garden, visiting an apple orchard and planting a new selection of seeds including poppies, cabbage and broad beans.

To find out more go to: rosaryschool.org.uk