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My life: Andre White, 11, Cornwall

We have been doing a project with the National Trust. We have been gardening from Tudor times. We used the same methods. We planted strange vegetables like purple carrots and squashkins - these are a cross between a pumpkin and a squash. We've not planted any other strange vegetables but we have planted radishes and leeks. We tried some of them. The squashkins tasted juicy, sort of like roast potatoes. We didn't get the chance to try purple carrots; there weren't enough to go round. We also planted bluebells and 2,000 daffodil bulbs. It took a long time.

We have been working on the project for five years. The best bit aboutthe project was getting our hands dirty and getting a feel for what theTudors' methods were like and using the same tools. We have got an awardfor the school that's helped the National Trust most with gardening. Itmakes me proud.

The hardest thing was pulling up things. I might carry on gardeningbecause we grew strange and exotic vegetables and I found theminteresting. I don't think I could find purple carrots and squashkinsanywhere else.

- Andre is a pupil at St Newlyn East Primary School and was speaking at4Children's Roots and Wings Awards

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