Monday 28 April 2014

Growing Our Own

My two budding gardeners have been outside enjoying the mild weather and helping out with our little patch of green. They made bird feeders earlier in the week, which the birds have been absolutely loving, and this morning they helped to re-pot the peppers and sow seeds. How much have they grown since we planted them back in March?!


So far this month, our main focus has been on growing our own peppers. We had a change in direction this morning and the kids sowed some flower seeds; they chose miniature marigolds, phlox and sunflowers. They filled up some peat trays with compost, poked holes in each segment then sowed their seeds.


All of our re-potted peppers and seeds then received a good watering from the kids. We placed the peppers in our new mini green-house and the seeds have found themselves a sunny spot on the kitchen windowsill. They should begin to flower from June onwards, so hopefully we'll have lots of pretty bedding for our garden by the Summer. Fingers crossed!

Are you growing your own this year? What are you growing?

Country Kids from Coombe Mill Family Farm Holidays Cornwall

8 comments:

  1. As my greenhouse has been used as a lambing shed I'm behind with planting this year! It's lovely to get the children involved in planting and a rewarding for them to see things growing. Thanks for linking up and sharing your gardening fun with Country Kids.

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    1. Aw, such a lovely use for a greenhouse though!! Thanks for having me and hosting :) x

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  2. I love the second collage and how your son is so concentrated in his planting! Gardening is really a nice family bonding activity #countrykids

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    1. They love it don't they, so nice to share these things with them :) x

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  3. we love growing our own food in the garden and a great interest to give them. look forward to seeing how much bigger they grow. few of ours are worth calling plants so far. over from #countrykids

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    1. It's our 2nd year growing our own and we're loving it too. Good luck with all your growing, although it sounds like your's are doing really well x

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  4. I love seeing little hands planting, just wonderful. We grow a lot of our own food in the backyard and I love that my little man helps. The best part is finding him sitting in the garden munching away on something :)

    Good luck with your growing season.

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    1. Aw, that's so lovely. It's great getting them involved isn't it, my two love helping out in the garden too x

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