With Little Garden, Checkers hopes to encourage children and adults to get outside and spend some quality time together as they tend to their seedlings and learn to grow their own fresh herbs, vegetables and flowers.

Customers will be rewarded with one Little Garden seedling kit for every R150 spent in a Checkers or Checkers Hyper store. There are 24 different seedlings to collect, including eight vegetables, eight flowers and eight herbs. Each seedling kit includes a small biodegradable pot, a soil pod, seed paper and a pop-out name tag.

All the materials used in the Little Garden seedling kits are compostable or recyclable: the biodegradable pots are made of wood pulp and peat; the seeds are all natural and the soil pods are made of coconut husk.

Customers also have the opportunity to buy a limited edition collectors’ case to keep all their seedlings in one place until they sprout. Additional Little Garden merchandise available for sale includes mini garden tools and gardening gloves.

There are also prizes up for grabs with Little Garden, ranging from those for collecting all 24 Little Garden seedling kits to those for three school choirs, standing the chance to win a share of R60 000 for their school. Customers who buy any three participating brands stand a chance to win a food tour to Italy worth R100 000. 

For more information, visit www.checkerslittlegarden.co.za. You can also follow Checkers on Facebook or on Twitter.