The trouble with toddler and gardens

[daviddevantnhisspiritwife]

MrsCordial, has my son been on your plot for about 5 minutes? That list sounds like his work on his flying visits like a whirling dervish.

This evening:

1. Picking unripe tomatoes
2. Stamping on the carrots
3. Picking mangetout, biting and discarding them
4. Watering weeds (with precious waterbutt water, in the rain)
5. Dragging the hoe around and damaging things.

I was a nervous wreck after 4 mins - and I had invited him to help pick tomatoes

[Yorkistransplant]

Lol, sorry folks. This is part of the trouble of gardening with toddlers, you have to stop half way though things and you end up missing bits. Creemteez wins a prize, yes i think my toddlers has swapped the label around.


MrsCordial, I like your idea. So here are a couple more points to add to Daviddevantnhisspirtwife

Lying down in just were you way to stick your fork/spade.
Walking over the new seedlings
Using the dibber to make holes in every thing, plants,ground cover,Welles.....
MOVING PLANT LABELS!

[MrsCordial]

Yorkis, I don't even attempt to use plant labels! DS sweetly brings me his used lolly sticks for using as plant labels but I know he wouldn't be able to resist fiddling with them for five minutes.

[Florence Fennel]

Your toddlers all sound sweetly mischevious (you have to be a granny to say that) It looks like a spaghetti squash to me.

[MrsCordial]

Sweetly mischievous doesn't scare me - it's getting stuck in earnestly trying to be helpful that's so terrifying!

[Tripmeup]

Your toddlers all sound sweetly mischevious (you have to be a granny to say that) It looks like a spaghetti squash to me.

Plus one on that from me... I am growing spaghetti squash this year and it looks exactly like that...

[kathycam]

It looks like that to me too, except mine is paler in colour.