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  • School Garden: health & safety quagmire

    So, last year I was shown a list of plants not to be grown in school. This included potatoes and tomatoes.

    Discussed with teacher. We both agreed spuds & toms fine, so long as the risks were explained to children, and they are all told, all the time, not to pick or eat anything without express permission from a responsible adult.


    I've found lists from the RHS and several different local authorities that have variously included strawberries, horse chestnut, French beans, rhubarb, comfrey, dicentra, daffodils and tulips on the banned lists.

    RoSPa used to do a poster of poisonous plants. I can't find it now, or anything like it. Do any of you have, or have seen, such a thing? It would save me a lot of grief.
    Last edited by Two_Sheds; 23-09-2013, 08:55 AM.
    All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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    http://apps.rhs.org.uk/schoolgardeni..._devon_601.pdf

    THE POISON GARDEN Website Blog

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    • #3
      Is this link any help TS?


      http://apps.rhs.org.uk/schoolgardeni..._devon_601.pdf

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      • #4
        Snap.

        I win.


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        • #5
          Funny how we all survived in the garden as kids without poisoning ourselves.....................
          My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
          to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

          Diversify & prosper


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          • #6
            that's because we had common sense, but it's been all bred out now....

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            • #7
              This is link to a poisonous plants for kids PDF. It is australian but it's quite simple, maybe you could just use the bits that are relevant?
              Fact Sheets

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              • #8
                .......and then a child will eat or handle something that's not on your list and you'll be in even deeper trouble than if you'd just insisted staff and children apply your original basic safety advice. I'm glad it's not me being asked to do it and I know what my union would say about it and quite rightly, too. (I hope this doesn't become a cue for union bashing, as teachers we are so open to being accused of something and suddenly finding ourselves suspended for weeks or months - which is not any fun.)
                "A life lived in fear is a life half lived."

                PS. I just don't have enough time to say hello to everyone as they join so please take this as a delighted to see you here!

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by zazen999 View Post
                  http://apps.rhs.org.uk/schoolgardeni..._devon_601.pdf I've had that one, thanks. It conflicts with the one I was shown at school

                  THE POISON GARDEN Website Blog
                  A good point well made on there: that more children die from roman blinds than poisonous plants. I'm not sure it would be acceptable as my defence though, should the worst happen and a child become ill through something I've done/ not done
                  Last edited by Two_Sheds; 05-03-2012, 08:03 PM.
                  All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Scarlet View Post
                    Can't open it Scarlet ~ computer's gone all Elfin Safety and says it's an unsafe site

                    (oh, the irony)
                    All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by marchogaeth View Post
                      .......and then a child will eat or handle something that's not on your list and you'll be in even deeper trouble
                      Yep.

                      Plus, if I have to check everyone's allergies and give safety training before every lesson, we'll just have time left to wash our hands and get our coats
                      All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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                      • #12
                        The definitive guide to safety within the primary science curriculum, where gardening could fall, is a publication called "Be Safe". I think it is produced by the Association for Science Education (ASE) I'd be surprised if all primary schools didn't have a copy lurking somewhere. I don't recall seeing any vegetables listed but I've have to check at school tomorrow. (Don't bring it home for light reading!) It does list obvious plants to avoid including foxgloves.

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                        • #13
                          thats why the school has liability insurance, if little johnny doesn't listen and eats the belladonna

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                          • #14
                            Ye Gods, whatever next? And to think that our chemistry teacher used to let us play with merury in our hands as a special end of term treat............. OK, there's reasons why you shouldn't do that but my friend's little girl has been happily harvesting toms etc since she could walk and is definitely alive and well

                            Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.

                            Which one are you and is it how you want to be?

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Two_Sheds View Post
                              Yep.

                              Plus, if I have to check everyone's allergies and give safety training before every lesson, we'll just have time left to wash our hands and get our coats
                              Just how long does it take these days, to wrap them all up in their bubblewrap?

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