Veg Growing, anger management, fatherhood

[Nicos]

......will you be my surrogate daddy Jimmer???

[OverWyreGrower]

I often look at the couples we know who don't have children, and marvel at the incredible free time and spare income they seem to have... and indeed their immaculate houses, gardens, allotments!

Um, not sure where I'm going wrong then!!

But how lovely that you've got littlies that want to help Daddy (until they're 13 and everything is 'stupid and 'boring'!)

[JimmerG]

......will you be my surrogate daddy Jimmer???

And escape to Normandy....? Its a very tempting idea indeed!!!

[Iamhanuman]

that wasn't shmaltzy at all JimmerG
it was exactly right and a perfect representation of how you were feeling
My two and a half year old has been totally taken over by the idea of gardening and ALWAYS wants to help Daddy digging, watering, earthing up and blimey guess who's potatoes are growing the biggest?? The ones he planted!
Guess who got all their Sunflower seedlings to grow, while my Sweetcorn were 50%?

He loves it and that is what makes me stop crying when he waters the little seedling by literally squashing them with the watering can sometimes!!

[JimmerG]

He loves it and that is what makes me stop crying when he waters the little seedling by literally squashing them with the watering can sometimes!!

I watched one of the childen trying to water some newly sown seeds in pots with the hose on 'Jet' setting!!

Pots, earth and seeds got absolutely blasted all over the lawn!

She looked around to see if anyone had seen, when I appeared to ask what had happened - she claimed a FOX had done it!!!!!

Oh well - let's start again...!

[allotmentlady]

I remember when my daughter was 3, she ran into the greenhouse and pulled all the flowers off the tomato plants, ALL of them........when i realised i was livid inside, then she came up to me with them, saying she had picked them for me cos she loves me soooo much, I melted, it was a week or so later when they flowered again but I made sure we had an old fire guard in front of greenhouse to stop her doing this again,

Kids eh? lol

[FionaH]

The allotment where we shared so many happy days will become my escape, my haven from the teenagers from hell. SURELY teens wouldn't be seen DEAD on an allotment - would they?

J

Not unless you pay them an awful lot of money or indulge in emotional blackmail!

[Flummery]

I watched one of the childen trying to water some newly sown seeds in pots with the hose on 'Jet' setting!!

Pots, earth and seeds got absolutely blasted all over the lawn!

She looked around to see if anyone had seen, when I appeared to ask what had happened - she claimed a FOX had done it!!!!!

Oh well - let's start again...!

That's why you get 500 lettuce seeds in a packet! We've all done it!

[King Carrot]

Last Summer my 3 yr old boy decided to help by picking the Tomatoes,

This Summer I'll remind him again that he actually likes them when they're red

[Hilary B]

As my Mum always said "when they are little, they make your arms ache, when they grow up they make your heart ache, and we wouldn't be without them for ANYTHING!"

[JimmerG]

My Father often recounts the time when I was about 3... he was thinning carrots, whilst I followed behind pulling up all the ones he'd 'missed'!

We laugh now - but I bet it wasn't so amusing at the time!!

[JimmerG]

As my Mum always said "when they are little, they make your arms ache, when they grow up they make your heart ache, and we wouldn't be without them for ANYTHING!"

I was having a suit fitted a while ago - and the taylor noted that my left arm/shoulder was more toned than the right because that's the side upon which I always carried the children!

He then proceeded to hit me somewhere the children get you aswell......

the wallet!

[SueA]

What lovely stories JimmerG, & by the way 'a fox really did do it', it sneaked in when you weren't looking properly! You'll have them all well trained soon!

[Flummery]

As my Mum always said "when they are little, they make your arms ache, when they grow up they make your heart ache, and we wouldn't be without them for ANYTHING!"

In Lancashire that saying goes "Children make your arms warch when they're little and your heart when they're big." Haven't thought about that for years. Showing me age. I don't reckon many people use the old dialect word for ache any more. It still lingers on with some in the form of "belly-warch"!

[growingkasbar]

Not quite the same. But, i work with kids and in pre-school we planted a few seeds and they were all doing very well, filling the seed trays with soil and putting in the seeds really carefully. All was going well. Then we had to water them. One full watering can in one square!!! I immediately burst out laughing but the other adult who i was working with, screamed Nooooooooo!!!! (in a comedy fashion) The kids immediatly froze. Then she said "would you like to be watered?" then proceded to spray the children with water!! An all out water fight ensued! Gardening is always more fun with little helpers! and as it happens all the veg has survived the drowning lol