Kids in the Garden

I really love having the kids around whilst gardening; they see you doing stuff like preparing the soil, planting out seedlings, and the coolest bit – picking food!

Sometimes it’s too easy to say “don’t walk on that”, “be careful you nearly stood on that plant” etc, but take a moment to put yourself in their world, you’re doing something very interesting and cool and they want in! So let them in; get them amongst the chickens, let them collect the eggs (cos it’s like a gift to them from the chickens), really who cares if they break one or two in the process.

Let them plant their own seeds and remind them to check for when they’ve sprouted or not (they might forget about it 24 hours later) and let them have their own bit of garden..

Our boys love to eat whatever they can in the garden, sometimes it’s a free-for-all on say, beans, or Raspberries(these are like a currency!)

Any small interest they show in the garden really should be encouraged and should be more of it.

Until next time.....let a kid loose in the garden!