GREEN-fingered pupils at Kendal's Castle Park Primary School scooped first place at this summer's Royal Horticultural Society's Tatton Park Show.

The Gardening Club children, aged between seven and 11, met every week after school to plant, weed, tend and water the vegetables and flowers.

They planted a range of vegetables including purple beans, potatoes, Swiss chard, beetroot, radish, rhubarb, broccoli and lettuce.

Impressed with the children's enthusiasm, the school entered the RHS School Gardening Vegetable Trug Competition - and won.

"I am so proud of how enthusiastically the children tended the plants throughout the year and to be awarded first prize is a just reward for their amazing dedication," said head teacher Helen Richardson.