Teaching Little Ones to Garden

What a delightful thread this is. Who needs to read the latest dirge in your daily rag . I much prefer to read little stories like these,
Jenny

 

My mum was planting some stuff at my Brothers and my one year old niece decided to eat a slug a couple of weeks ago, not too sure that this is the best way to get rid of slugs.

 

Young kids eat bogeys all the time. A slug is just a moving bogey.

 

I think it's a family trait for eating odd things in the garden, for me it was coal, my brother snails and recently discovered a cousin used to eat the dirt.

 

I used to like the black dog biscuits that tasted of charcoal.

 

Isn't that the Wagon load of tarmacadam they turn up to your door with for a cheap driveway (10% of the local motorway - considered to be the Mick's cut!)

 

me too! lol

 

Thats because they were charcoal biscuits. I liked them too, if I could beat the dog to them.

 

I once had to drink a drink made of charcoal and water after I accidentally consumed something I shouldn't have. It was horrible.

 

my two eldest grandchildren was asked politely to be quiet and give the teacher a chance in nursery when they did a growing Term in nursery apparently you don't tell the teacher she is wrong when she says that all fruit and vegetables come from farmers !!!! they argued with her saying " NO MISS IT COMES FROM MAMA'S PLOTAMONT "

 

My son is 2 and I've got him involved this year with the garden simple stuff like sowing carrots and watering plants, also looking at bugs and chucking stuff in the compost, he loves it. Although I do have to watch him if he sees me dead heading then there are no flowers left when I turn my back, so I leave this job until he's not around. I planted an odd Ganzia that I had left over today and by the time I'd put the tools in the shed he had dug it up, and came walking down the garden saying ' here dad, compost'. I did have to laugh.

Rusty

 

Irishman's cuttings

They is when you bung in a cutting that's already got roots or incipient roots on, like bunny's ears, bergenia or, ahem, heucheras. And various other things which i can't remember at the moment.

They're so easy even an Irishman or a three year old can do them.

 

What a great thread with such lovely stories, and I'm loving the one liners your little darlings are coming out with