Grow veg with your children there is no excuse

[Keepdlingwhatyourgutsays]

I can not tell you how much fun it is to grow plants with your children and how good it is for your own self. Currently living in what i call my concrete garden (slabs and gravel) but managing to grow veg. Its a must please try it. Even if its water cress

Mine also liked growing spring onions from the offcuts. Cut the very ends off (only about a centimetre - use the rest), put into water and they'll start to grow back very quickly and can be planted out.

tartan could you just hide the thread if its bothering you so much. The OP clearly didn't come on with the intention of offending and has talked about depression and how gardening with her child helps her. I don't think your constant posts are appropriate in light of that.

You can do that with lettuce, i think only once though with the lettuce. You eat some of it then then replant the bottom, where the route would have been

Cress smells like shit. I’d rather take them to Greggs. LOL!

Just reading this title, I thought: What's that smell, that smelly smell that smells like a single child under the age of three in Montessori five mornings a week?

Smug and Glory.

Anyway, I'd love to have your enthusiasm, OP. But I'm a burnt out, cynical parent. I'd best get back to arguing with my gaming 16 year old with shitty smelling cress under his armpits and a repulsion to GCSE revision.

I wonder if they are nutritionally as good when regrown that way or wether they lose some goodness

Make music with your children, there is no excuse.
Run long distance with your children, there is no excuse.
Build an engine with your children, there is no excuse.

Who needs excuses to not do something they're not interested in? Go and patronise another group of people, please. And we do grow fruit and vegetables, by the way and we are building an engine.

I agree with cloud re carrots.

We had huge success with dwarf beans, courgettes and black currants as well as potatoes. One courgette plant grows huge though!

Strawberries can go in those terracotta planters or in things you hang on the wall. Some people more enterprising than I had them planted in a pallet which was hung vertically.

tartan are you genuinely interested in ideas or are you pissed off and waiting for a response? Not having a go - honestly wondering

Nice thread, we just noticed the first shoots from our peas and spring onions today. DC was very excited, but not as excited as me . We just dug out the small flowerbed in our front garden and planted some fairly random veggies - now hoping for the best! As DC is a toddler he picked everything rainbow: rainbow beetroot, rainbow chard, purple spring onions and 3 colours of peas!

tartan you’re wasting your time.

Just picture someone who has mastered growing cress on the windowsill, has now grand ideas, has probably fibbed after a binge of pininterest and is looking for practical ideas which she’s being given... and hide the thread. You’ll feel a lot better.

Garden geek your not boring me at all. It's really interesting.
Rainbow things are a really good idea.
Can I just thank everybody whose come on and added such great tips and what they are doing.
i think if I'm ever lucky enough to get an allotment I'm going to try and share it. It's a shame there isn't a group for people to go on and add pictures and ideas and what they are doing.

We can start one keeping I will start a thread in gardening section.

There is OP, it's in the gardening section. The current thread is I think called "Allotment/veg patch" Very knowledgeable MNers on there who will help you with any veg queries and would not be at all bothered about the fact that you're doing everything in pots.

Yes. How long do threads last. Would people likely keep relookin. I don't get notifications when new posts are added.

But one about gardening with children is a good idea Motherhen

O I think I came to the parent section as I'd seen how good it was for my little one. So thought child parent. Ill swing over their. 🤗 Thank you

Yes we may discover how to stop children eating mud or like mine little one who likes to water the weeds too.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/gardening/3231062-Gardening-Growingwith-the-kids

need to get my titled sorted i forgot a space but you get the idea ....I haven't been over to the gardening section much i think am about to get lost in it all.

@tartan order them online if you can't carry them home. I'm sorry you're having a hard time but stop finding fault with everything. The OP isn't rising to your antagonism. Her title is fucking shit but she isn't going to change it. I kindly suggest you get over it.

Thanks for all the reports everyone. It looks like a new thread has been started now, with a new title (one we are just about to fix) so that's a relief!

Thank you so much to everyone for commenting fairly and reasonably on this post and getting it back to what it is about getting gardening with the kids and yourself. I nearly gave up hope watching it spiral into something it wasn't. Night all 🌱🌷💚

you don't need a garden....do you have a window?

Yes but by the terms of my lease I am not allowed to put plants on the windowsill. And I cannot have them inside as my cats would eat them.

We have some pumpkin seeds on the windowsill just sprouting now. They are going into a very small border but I think they will trail onto the gravel next to it and create a jungle (well I hope). Almost 4 year old is very excited and is checking them every day - hope his interest lasts, but who knows.