PUPILS hope a gift will help them hothouse their market gardening skills.
An idea to start a gardening club at Crook Primary School has taken root, and about 20 children maintain the school's flower beds and vegetable plots. Potatoes, cabbages and cauliflowers are sold at school fairs to raise funds.
It looked as if the advent of cold weather would put an end to their gardening efforts, until the school received a £750 community dividend grant from the North Eastern Co-op.
The award, made by the Co-op's South West Durham divisional committee, has enabled Crook primary to buy a greenhouse where they can grow tomatoes.
Headteacher Antonella Lupton said: "We have a quadrangle in the middle of the school where one teacher runs a gardening club and each group of children has a different area to look after."
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