Sourcing cheap plants for my 3 year old

My son wanted to grow some peas the other day. Its far, far too early yet, but I don't like bust his enthusiasm, so he put half a dozen peas in a small pot of compost and left it in the living room near the fire where its warm.

Most of them have sprouted already

 

That's a good idea. Wonder if my wood stove would work?!

 

Can't see why not. Doesn't matter what produces the warmth. As long as its not too warm for them of course. Just don't put them in the wood stove

 

Ah, hang on....... that's a funny colour flame....

 

Potted on little chimneys lavender seeds this morn.

 

My daughters fruit bushes and trees have arrived. All part of the companion planting i am trying.
Coxs orange pippn
blackberry asterina
rasberry autum tresure
grape pinot blanc
blueberry bluecrop

 

shes going to have more than nine pots now as i have got three just with nasturtiums in. And the lavender and aquilegia seedlings are doing well. Tomato seeds will be next i chose gardeners delight and fantazio?

 

We dont want her to lose anymore space in her play area so we are going to put her pots at the front of the roseborder so she dosent go scrambling through the rose bushes trying to get to her pots.

 

Her seccond apple tree arrived today
And I got her blackberry plants potted up whilst she filled the seed trays and planted her tomato seeds. She is definatley learnimg

 

How big is the apple tree?

 

THey are both on dwarf rootstock the coxs orange pippin is 4ft and the braeburn is 5ft.

 

how much were they if you dont mind me asking

 

ABout 18 pounds each. Braeburn from t and m and orange pippin from bunkershill nursery.

I finished planting out all the fruit today so finally caught up with the deliveries.

 

she had a go at planting some polyanthus and tete a tete daffs yesterday afternoon. She is getting the hang of digging the hole and putting the plant in now

 

a bit behind on the seed sowing and need to make more space for her and sort out the lawn. I think i am going to re lawn seed the triangle border to make her more space as she is growing so fast. everything i sowed survived except the nasturtiums which clueless feared might not make it as i planted them so early. lesson learned
Will get pics up over the next few weeks of her progress. She can now identify a rose a daffodil and a tomato plant seed so thats progress.