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

I shall today after school for ten minutes. I shall use a utube video.

See I have it a go I posted positively.
I do wonder though are you all shouting at Nike "just do it". I can't just do it bla bla bla how dare you say I should just do it, am I a rubbish mum because I haven't just done it! No I doubt you are.... hmmm

What a strange thread. OP you must be able to see your title is rude and condescending. But there also seems to be some overreacting too.

However I don't think anyone is growing watercress in their garden or windowsills. If you start a condescending thread about growing food with children, you should at least know what you are talking about.

We’ve grown potatoes in those big bags, just plant the seed potatoes, and top up the soil as the leaves grow so you end up with a bag full of soil and lovely new potatoes! I might do some more this year actually

Tomatoes and strawberries grow well in hanging baskets.

And if you have slugs, what you need is a resident toad (hard to achieve, I know)- we have a big ugly brute that frequents our garden and he loves a delicious juicy slug or two.....

Has anyone mentioned tumbling tomatoes in grow bags slung over a fence/ swing side/back of a chair?

Fold the growbag or compost bag in half and settle it over something. It sits like saddlebags. Cut a hole on each side and put the plant in. It's dead easy to water, no need to pinch stuff out, and loads of lovely cherry tomatoes. Must be a tumbling plant, though.

Picklenepopcorn undortunatly I suspect people will reply I don't have a chair to do that.
And sleeping in your flower bed people are in fact growing things on window sills a few have just decided to become offended by this. Again "just do it" by Nike I doubt people are being so delicate about that.

Bear1983 that's fantastic. I've just had to remove a snail today but I put it on my weeds instead 😂 The weeds grow in my concrete garden so that gave me hope other thins could.

There is another thread now for just gardening with the children. This one is for people who offend easily to wings about be offended on something they could have gained from. It chose not to.
The people who were fair and polite went on that one. I'm not sure much else will come from this one now.
Apart from a few people laughing at the comments on here

So unfortunately I don't believe its a British Value anymore in society

I work at a public garden. People are very very enthusiastic about gardening. It's a pretty huge industry.

It's a shame the people who chose to be offended by such a good idea and refused at every turn to try it and take on the tips are the ones I fear who would have gained the most from it. I suspect not them but their children would have.

I’m taking everyone’s tips thank you!!

Your title is offensive and suggests you must do it. That said if it I want offended I wouldn't have read a gardening post.

If you wanted to attract like minded people to swap tips you could have done so. You have also attracted people offended by your judgy title.

Bubba1234 yay. Gardening with my little one has made a massive difference. I think living in flats and things where there isn't a garden having that plant growing wether cacti or cress or other herbs brings you abit closer to outside. It's proven it helps with lots of things.
And the kids love it. Waking up and checking how much things have grown, helping water things.

Lml83. Seeing the language and the obvious not caring about growing or trying to I'm not sure I care that those people chose to be offended by something I didn't set out to do.
It's a shame they can't put that energy into planting things with the kids rather than reading something choosing to take it the wrong way and then typing and typing about how they are offended.
Get planting with the kids everyone ... just do it!!
Whatever big or small flat or house. The benefits are fantastic 😀💚🌱

And yes I really think you should I think you should do it whatever it is I really do! And that's wonderful. To want people to do such a positive thing 💚

No thanks. I do plenty with my kids. Growing veg isn't my thing. Glad you enjoy it but not for me.

Good for you. I still think people should do it and get the benefits 😀

Are you this annoying in real life?

I think people should do what they enjoy. Each to their own. Certainly not against growing veg. Growing veg with someone who is unenthusiastic is probably not a fulfilling experience so better for my family that we dont. Thanks though.

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

No. It's not. Perhaps shocking, but not everyone finds the same things "fun". I loathe gardening with every shred of my being. The idea of it being "fun" is alien to me. I do however appreciate that other people enjoy it. I don't try to convert gardeners to my ideas of fun so why do you think you should be trying to convert others to yours?

To the airt of person who would come on line and chose to be offended by myself encouraging people to plant with their children yes I'm sure I am annoying to them. But if they want to be annoyed by passionate people who share and want others to copy healthy and good ideas I really don't care. 😀 This thread has inspired a few and was worth it. The ones who are offended won't gain anything like the rest that's there loss

Flyer you loathe it and will make. O attempt for your children to love it that's your choice if you can't get the enthusiasm up. It mine

No they mine

To wake up and and water the plants and check how they've grown then take small one to school was a joy none of you got. But it's a joy your will all deny in an attempt to win an argument you started after choosing to be offended 🙄💚

Time off work so I get the luxury of choosing to waste my time now commenting back to responses. I know I'm wasting it but to any one who wants to benefit from growing with the kids there is a link to a new thread where people can. You don't have to sift through comments like , I don't eat cress!