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Monday 16 August 2010
Bright chards, oriental greens and fiery salads for autumn days

The One Pot Pledge has teamed up with our friends at Seed Pantry to bring new growers a bright, exotic and tasty treat for autumn.

The One Pot Pledge Autumn Salads Pack is perfect for sowing between now and October and will give growers perfect pot grown produce for the autumn and winter months.

Including Pak Choi, Chard and spicy salad mixes, the One Pot Pledge Autumn Salads pack is ideal for pledgers wanting to keep their fingers green throughout the winter.

As and added bonus, Seed Pantry are offering a 5% discount off the retail price of £9.95, with a further 5% donation made to Garden Organic with every sale. All you need to do is enter OnePotPledge as the promotional code when you buy – simple!

Buy yours here and green and tasty veg will be yours! Don’t forget the code:

http://www.seedpantry.co.uk/selected/autumn-salads.html

Wednesday 11 August
One Pot Pledge gets Royal airing

Visitors to the Prince of Wales’ Garden Party to Make a Difference this September will be encouraged to make the One Pot Pledge by reusing their drinks cups to grow something edible.

The event, designed to get people to start making changes towards a more sustainable lifestyle, will see the One Pot Pledge team located at mobile potting stations across the palace gardens.

Offering first time growers the chance to take home a seedling of Bright Lights Chard or Wild Rocket, kindly donated by Delfland Nurseries, the aim of the activity is to get more people growing and eating their own.

To join the party and to get an exclusive look at otherwise unseen palace gardens visit www.startgardenparty.co.uk to buy tickets. See you there!

Wednesday 11 August
14,000 pledgers and growing!

Here at One Pot Pledge towers, we are thrilled that our efforts over the spring and summer have paid off and that 14,000 more people are now giving it a grow!

You might think that the growing season is now over but think again! Exciting new ideas for autumn/winter ‘one pot veg’ will be winging it’s way to the One Pot Pledge website soon, as well as an exclusive One Pot Pledge product from our friends at the Seed Pantry – so keep your eyes peeled.

Tuesday 22 June
The One Pot Pledge is going to Glastonbury

This week the One Pot Pledge team are off to the Glastonbury Festival. We’ll be in the Greenpeace field signing up as many people as possible to make the One Pot Pledge; helping them make that first step towards a more sustainable future. And anyone who brings their used cup (coffee/tea/cider/beer etc) to our stand can recycle it by potting up basil, bean or courgette seed and start their first foray into growing at Glastonbury. At the end of the festival, on the Sunday afternoon the One Pot Pledge team will be working with Rocket Gardens to dismantle, give away and eat the living “Greenpeace” roof, made out of the 24,000 lettuce plug plants!

So if you’re going to Glastonbury, do make sure you come along and say hello to Garden Organic’s One Pot Pledge team in the Greenpeace field.

Tuesday 22 June
1,000 new growers for Britain

Our ‘Potometer’ is rapidly rising thanks to a spell at BBC Gardeners’ World Live where over 1,000 keen gardeners who haven’t yet experienced the highs of growing their own food, signed the One Pot Pledge to grow something edible and organic for the first time.

During the event our One Pot Pledge champion and Gardeners’ World presenter, Alys Fowler paid us a visit. Alys loved our giant pot filled with veggies and made her very own One Pot Pledge to grow Chinese Artichokes  - and to actually eat them!

The pledge total for the campaign now stands at just over 10,000.

Wednesday 26 May 2010
Chelsea Flower Show visitors show support of One Pot Pledge®

Gardening Gurus and gardening novices alike have shown their support for growing their own organic food at Garden Organic’s silver medal winning Chelsea Flower Show exhibit.

Celebrities from every background from Jamie Oliver to Jerry Hall, Bill Oddie to Sir Derek Jacobi signed up to make the pledge to grow veg and the BBC’s very own Gardening Guru Carol Klein also told us how she ‘loves’ the campaign!

Regular Chelsea visitors also showed their support with some 200 people making the One Pot Pledge® in the Great Pavilion on Tuesday alone.

Garden Organic’s One Pot Pledge® exhibit is all about inspiring people to grow something edible for the first time. The exhibit at Chelsea is bursting with ideas of how to grow veg in all sorts of unusual containers, with ideas for colour combinations, planting schemes and demonstrations of just how successfully crops can grow in pots.

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Thursday 20 May
Giant pot planted at Chelsea!

Garden Organic and the One Pot Pledge will hit the dizzying horticultural heights of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show next week and during our stay we hope to get hundreds of pledgers and Gardening Gurus to help us get even more people growing their own organic food!

Located in the continuous learning zone, our stand, which was designed by organic grower and Chelsea gold medallist Jekka Mcvicar, is based entirely on the idea of growing crops in pots.

At the heart of the stand is a giant pot filled with veggies, which is then flanked by some gorgeous stone planters from Haddonstone, as well as some other nifty growing innovations from The Ladder Allotment company, Greenhouse Sensation, Haxnicks and Thompson and Morgan.

Bursting with edible plants and flowers, vegetables and even some varieties from our Heritage Seed Library collection, the stand is designed to inspire all visitors, from non-gardeners to the more green-fingered, to have a go at growing something edible this year.

If you’re attending the show (25 – 29 May 2010) and want to drop by to make the pledge or sign up as a Gardening Guru then you will find Garden Organic’s One Pot Pledge team at The Grand Pavilion in the Continuous Learning Zone.

 

Friday 23 April
Pupils go potty for pledge

Children at St John’s Primary School, at Wimbourne in Devon, had a lovely day learning all about nature thanks to One Pot Pledger Anna Guyer hosting a One Pot Pledge school seed sowing day.

Over 160 pupils took part in learning the basics of gardening by selecting pots, filling them with compost and sowing and watering seeds. All of the pupils are now committed Pledgers. Well done!

If you are interested in setting up your own One Pot Pledge school event click over on to the Schools tab at the top of the page for ideas and info or the Get Growing tab for event resources.

 

Friday 26 March
Spud News!

Our good friends at Thompson and Morgan have kindly donated us 100 Potato growing starter kits. These little beauties contain everything you could ever need (minus the compost!) to get a perfect batch of roasties or mash straight from your garden. Sign up and make the One Pot Pledge® for your chance to win!

 

Friday 26 March
Congratulations to our first 50 pledgers

Greenhouse Sensation Windowgrows will be winging their way to you very soon! If you missed out don't worry, click here for more Greenhouse Sensation offers.

 

Monday 22 March 2010
TV Gardener, Alys Fowler, joins the One Pot Pledge® campaign

Garden Organic is proud to announce that Gardening Guru and all round great gal – Alys Fowler – has joined the One Pot Pledge® as our campaign champion. Alys said, “Eating food that you’ve grown yourself is one of life’s great pleasures and one that everyone should have the chance to enjoy.  With the One Pot Pledge® campaign we want to inspire and support people to try something new and experience the joy of growing their own food from seed to harvest.” Well said Alys!

 

Monday 22 March 2010
Greenhouse Sensation to give away 50 Windowgrows to first 50 pledgers

As an added incentive to get pledging, our friends at Greenhouse Sensation are giving away 50 Windowgrows and a selection of One Pot Pledge® seeds to our first 50 pledgers.

Window grows are perfect for small spaces, or houses with no garden at all, And don’t worry if you’re not one of our first 50 pledgers. Everyone that makes the pledge in March will also be eligible for £11.00 off a Windowgrow when booking at www.greenhousesensation.co.uk. Make sure you quote OPP1

Windowgrow standard price: £26.90
Windowgrow March pledgers price: £15.90

Grow kit product	Size	Which Plants	Standard Price	Pledger Price	Dates expires	Offer Code
Windowgrow (planter wth seed raising lid and reservoir)	Planter L75cm x W19cm x H13cm Lid Height 13cm	Coriander Basil Rocket Summer salad	£26.90	Save £11 £15.90	Ends 31st March	OPP1

There are also tons of other discounts on offer to pledgers so check out Greenhouse Sensation’s partner page to see what else they’ve generously offered.

Monday 22 March 2010
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