Sowing your seeds: Introduction
In this part of the Seeds For Schools website, we’ll look at identifying the different types of trees you’ll be growing, and how long each should take to grow into seedlings – or shoots as some people call them.
But first we need to be able to tell one tiny seed from the other in the packs that schools have been sent.
So use this part of the site to identify your seeds, then make plant pots, learn how to plant your seeds and how to look after them as they grow.
Help us plant a million trees
Many thousands of schools throughout the UK will be able to take part in this ambitious project.
And it’s not just planting the trees – it’s growing them and caring for them from seed.Every seed packet has hundreds of seeds to grow three different species of trees:
Common Alder,
Silver Birch and
Scots Pine.
The seeds have come from Forestry Commission sources within the UK and are of the same quality used by professional and commercial growers.
However, trees flourish where the climate suits their needs and the UK is no exception. Different species prefer different conditions so a species that flourishes in the south of England might not do so well elsewhere.
In Orkney, for example, it is very difficult to grow any kind of tree and schools there might experience more problems with their seedlings.
Next step...
Now click on ‘Identifying trees' on the left of this page to find out how to get started .
