Great Yorks green team

GREEN thinking youngsters won an award at The Great Yorkshire Show.

Mow the lawn once or twice a week and raise the cutting height slightly in prolonged dry weather.Lift bulbs of Dutch and Spanish irises and store them in a warm, dry place to ripen until September."Dean builds all the structures including the tree house, the decked areas, the pergolas and the picnic table. I'm left with the planting!"Ninety percent of what we have in the garden we have grown from seeds."CAPTION(S):Thin out water plants with secateurs or shears and remove excess growth from submerged oxygenating plants with a rake, if necessary.

* PRIZEWINNERS: Above left, back row, from left Michelle Lewis, head of communications at Yorkshire Water, Nigel Pulling, chief executive of the Yorkshire Agricultural Society and Paul Mashinter, deputy headteacher of Carr Green Primary School, with front row, the award winning pupils from Carr Green Primary School with their certificates and prizes. Picture, above right, the youngsters at work in the school's Brighouse garden (S)