Pot on, plant out or what?

The Prep school of which I'm a Governor, recently started something they called 'A Child's Dream Garden' (the area is - or will be when it's 'finished' - about 100' x 50'). They all got lovely and messy as they made newspaper 'pots', filled them with compost and then each child planted some seeds of their choice. The problem is they now have literally hundreds of small plants (mainly aquilegia and forget-me-not!), which are 3" - 4" high, strong and healthy with plenty of roots coming through the newspaper but which clearly need 'something' done with them.

Are we now looking at a summer holiday spent supervising groups of 4 - 13 year olds as they beg, borrow or make larger pots to transplant these plants into or, fingers crossed, can they now go straight into the ground?

 

Thanks Marley, I was hoping you'd say that!

 

My Grandkids school did that, then sold off all the excess ones at the Summer Fete made a small fortune for the school funds

Jack McH

 

The initial idea was to get the boys to grow fruit and veg which they could then eat - like that was going to happen - flowers were 'Plan B'!

I did explain that both these particular flower 'choices' would spread, which prompted the reaction 'Oh good' - I just hope I'm not around when the Groundsman finds them popping up in the middle of the cricket square :runhills: