Getting children involved in gardening
It’s not hard. Here is my recipe:
- Find a child who is bored, plenty of potential energy.
- Transfer to the allotment
- Fill one can with cold water from the standpipe tap
- Flourish several seed packets and offer to child, instructing to pick the one they prefer
- Stand well back as fingers get dirty making holes and poking seeds into soil
- Water well
- Write a label and poke into the soil, approximately where the seeds are located. retire for fizzy drinks and crisps in the shed or greenhouse.
Wait for about a week for shoots to appear, longer for food to grow and take care to gently weed around in the meantime. Congratulate yourself when they want to go back and do it again.
Even bigger congratulations if they’ll eat it once you pick it!