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NotInMyDay · 06/09/2012 21:04

Hello MN gardners

I'm new to this section. I recently moved to a new house where the garden was a big square of mud! We are slowly but surely getting it in order but I would like to encourage DC in the garden. They will have a little section just for them outside their playhouse. I want to get a few cute gardening bits for them for Christmas.
Over the summer I saw some cute welly planters in various colours but didn't buy them and I'm kicking myself. Does anyone know where I could get them? Preferably on the Internet?

Also, I want to put a couple of packets of seeds in their stockings. Can you recommend a few things that are easy to grow and have fast results?

Many thanks

TIA

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FaintingGoat · 06/09/2012 21:07

I don't know about the planters, I'm afraid. As for seeds though, coriander - for the reason that it tastes strongly even when the seedlings are only two inches high, probably before that even.

Of course, if they don't like coriander that might not help very much...

Aquelven · 07/09/2012 18:30

This
www.amazon.co.uk/BROWN-WELLY-BOOT-WITH-PLANTERS/dp/B004HOJYZW

Or this
www.poundland.co.uk/product-range/a-z/turtle-and-bee-welly-planter/

A few here
www.ebay.co.uk/sch/Garden-Plants-/2032/i.html?_nkw=welly+planters

Quick growing things are cress, radish, salad onions or some quick growing hardy annuals like marigolds, poppies, clarkia, poached egg plants, iberis.

Aquelven · 07/09/2012 18:32

Sorry, forgot to convert links, here you go

www.amazon.co.uk/BROWN-WELLY-BOOT-WITH-PLANTERS/dp/B004HOJYZW

Or this
www.poundland.co.uk/product-range/a-z/turtle-and-bee-welly-planter/

A few here
www.ebay.co.uk/sch/Garden-Plants-/2032/i.html?_nkw=welly+planters

Quick growing things are cress, radish, salad onions or some quick growing hardy annuals like marigolds, poppies, clarkia, poached egg plants, iberis.

NotInMyDay · 07/09/2012 19:18

Thank you so much. The eBay ones are just the ticket!

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CuttedUpPear · 08/09/2012 21:33

Hello....can I just butt in here and say that (from my point of view as a professional gardener who works with schools at times), if anyone is thinking of encouraging their children to garden, please consider a few things:

If you are giving the kids a corner of the garden, please make sure it's a good patch, with plenty of sunshine and good well drained soil.

Let them grow plants in the ground and not be limited to containers. Containers are a lot of work and require watering daily, twice daily in hot weather, and the plants in them can die if they forget or go away. They make for high maintenance gardening.

Get your children good quality tools. They will be discouraged at best or even hurt themselves with cheap tools. The usual one aimed at the children's market are just not good enough - spend a little more on the sort which are scaled down adults' tools made of strong materials and not those poxy little fork things which bend as soon as you look at them.

Sunflowers are great!

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