My children both love helping with the chores around the house (as long as it doesn’t involve tidying up their own mess!!), and one thing they are always keen to do is help out in the garden. They love growing things, watering and eating something that they have watched appear from a seed and then picked with their own hands.
Tiger Shed’s kindly sent us some seeds for salad leaves and challenged us to grow these over the last 4 weeks and show them our results.
Once I’d picked the children up from school, they couldn’t wait to start gardening with the day’s delivery, although Mister B did get a little distracted with the sack our goodies were delivered in, and before I knew it he was sack racing around the patio!
Miss M got stuck in with filling our wooden trug with soil, and sowing the seeds. They then both had a turn at watering!
We were pleased to see our first little seedlings after just a few days, which is good when gardening with children as it keeps up their enthusiasm and it became a daily task of who’s turn it was to water them.
Our final week of growing was last week, although we were off on our family holiday to Cornwall, so as much as I was hoping for a hot, sunny week, I also didn’t want the little salad leaves to dry out, but fortunately we came home to a trug full of luscious green leaves just waiting to be picked.
So we took a few cuttings, and had them for dinner! Thank you to Tiger Sheds – the children have had lots of fun and we have lots of salad leaves for the coming weeks!
Thanks to Tiger Sheds for providing the goods for our little gardening adventure.
Wow! That is brilliant! Well done to them. Grow your own veg is the best thing for children to learn!
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