KATIE Cross from Trinity Primary School is the winner of the Borders College Sunflower Competition. She grew the tallest sunflower through the summer. When measured in October it had reached a heady 9 feet in height.
The competition to see who could grow the tallest sunflower was launched at the Border Union Agriculture Society Schools Day in May. Borders College handed out sunflower seeds, pots and growing materials to primary schools from the Lothian and Borders regions. At the event horticultural students, demonstrated how to plant the seeds and gave advice on how to look after them as well as giving each school a pre-grown dwarf sunflower plant in order to let pupils see what they would look like once fully grown, only bigger. Competition runners up included Paulina Tomaszkiewicz and Sadie Scott also from Trinity Primary school. Katie, Paulina and Sadie all received a certificate and gardening vouchers for their school.
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