Way back in the Autumn for Halloween we got our pumpkin from the Farm shop near home, opened the top and the kids and I had a very messy morning removing the seeds from it – some we toasted others we dried on the windowsill for a couple [...] 
The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss is a wonderful book about a little boy planting a carrot seed and watching it grow – as part of the Virtual Book Club for Kids it inspired over [...]  One of the joys of spring to summer is to host your own sunflower growing contest that you can have as a family – the prize – keep the seeds of the winning sunflowers to grow more next year. With a packet of sunflower seeds from the store [...]  Growing your own is a great way to get kids to try new food and expand what they do it. Heinz Ketchup are encouraging you to grow your own tomatoes this year providing seeds via their Heinz Ketchup UK Facebook Page Grown You [...]  One of the earliest foods ready for picking in our vegetable garden each year is rhubarb – whether you are making my favourite rhubarb crumble or using it to stew and serve with custard (another favourite) to get the best flavour you can force it.  Tweet Cranberry Bird Feeder With winter firmly showing it’s presence it’s so important that we feed our native wildlife and in the UK that means birds. We have a few birds that remain all year round and are frequent garden visitors so creating bird feeding stations [...]  Tweet This past weekend our family was busy doing some winter gardening. It is late fall and time to close up for the season. Before we started trimming and raking, we took a little time to think about who might be using our garden during the winter months. After [...] |
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