TWENTY-two schools across Lincolnshire have signed up for a horticultural event taking place this month.

The Royal Horticultural Society's Get Your Grown-ups Growing takes place throughout October.

It is hoped the initiative will get more parents and adults involved in developing school gardens for use by children and the wider community.

The schools taking part include St Hugh's Catholic Primary School, in Lincoln, Kesteven and Sleaford High School and Nocton Community School.

A recent survey revealed that fewer than 1 per cent of parents were taught how to garden at school.

Jacky Chave, the RHS's strategic schools manager, said: "To help remedy this situation and provide parents with a chance to get involved, the RHS devised Get Your Grown-ups Growing.

"Throughout the month, schools across the UK will be holding open days, where the community can come in and they can all garden together.

"When children learn to garden it is a skill that stays with them for life, something they will use and fall back on as they grow up."