suddenly i am a gardening teacher!!!

[veggielover]

I have a playschool next door to my house and their back door opens by my back garden, i was hanging washing out yesterday when one of the play school leaders come out with a few of the children to water their runner beans that they are growing and we got chatting....... i am now their gardening guru!!! lol.... i was asked why my runners had flowers and theirs didn't and explained to them that mine had much more growing room as mine are in a large pot and theirs were in smaller pots, the teacher then pointed out all the other fruits and veggies that i was growing. I picked some peas for them and the teacher took them indoors...... they had them at snack time and this morning i was told that they went down a treat with the children, and that they want more!! lol

I'll have to watch out now..... slugs won't be my enemy.... it'll be 3 year olds climbing over fence to nab my peas!!!!!

[Incy]

What a lovely story!
I'm also on the watch for small children near my peas. We had the neighbours kids over to play for a while last weekend (aged 2&4) as they love our huge trampoline. Unfortuantely the little boy managed to bounce himself off and landed, luckily in a nice soft pile of plants. He was understandably very upset but his big sister and I picked a few pea pods and his tears immediately dried up..... all he could say after that was "more please"
They were both really dissapointed when they had finished all the ripe ones and had to be told they needed to wait for the others to grow some more

[SlugLobber]

Aw, how sweet. Wouldn't it be nice if years from now, some young adults were talking and saying, "Ooh do you remember that garden next to the door and those peas we used to eat?"

[ailsasyl]

here too! the kids next door and their cousin often ask what we have growing and pop round to see under strict instuction by their parents that they can't go round unless myself or HB are there, have given them some toms to grow as their son aged 11 is very keen and have promised hime some strawberry plants for next year! Also donated some flowers for their mums new bed!

and HB may have volunteered me to help set up a community garden have reminded her that I have only been groing for 2 years and lack knowledge

[zazen999]

Well done all the gurus....

I had a lad about late teens at the lottie the other week asking me how to get a lottie....big up the youngesters. My nieces love their little veg patch I built them - just wish I was nearer to watch them and teach them more about veg. Their carrots are better than mine!!! They loved the garlics, onions and shallots I took them at the weekend - wanted to know how a little onion seed grew into a huge onion.

[squashysu]

that is nothing more than totally brilliant, i am growing toms with the kids at school, we have 5 plants and i hope they grow they have flowers, so hoping they fruit so the kids can taste them, we have a growing chart so we can plot their progress each week, its great i wish i had a mini allotment at school! perhaps that could be one of my projects lol!

[miffy]

That is wonderful, those kiddies will remember that for a long time.