Gardening on a buggy, July.

Wanted to talk about Gardening with Children and how frustrating it can be and how admirable people seem to manage to grow vegetable even owning allotment plots.

Life with children is hard, it’s amazing how little time you have to yourself and the exhaustion one feels.

I basically dedicate one afternoon a month to do some serious gardening and literally my back garden with high hopes of an evening retreat has turned into a dump of toys and slides and half beaten to death plants battered by my 2 and 5 year old.

My front garden is slightly better off as it’s like a castle with a wall if they don’t treat it like a maze!

I even managed to plant some containers that actually look good and have survived.

Children love to get involved and we have planted seeds if we get past that then it’s watering and getting forgotten and then it’s trodden on.

I would love to hear if anyone has boisterous children and managed to get gardening?

I think if finances and time to improve then the best option for my garden would be basically do a full children’s play area that can be adapted to a garden as the children get older.

Does anyone have any creative play ideas that you have done, Most plants survive they may get deflowered but they will reflower …..The following year.

I am visiting Yaldling Organic Gardens in the school holiday which has reopened which is fantastic as it was my favourite, not too big a great restaurant delicious organic food reasonable and great for tips on composting wormeries, making your own liquid fertiliser and history of gardening.

I will update on any changes good and bad.

There is a little children’s garden too! I shall get some tips there.

Tip for July

1. Keep on top of those weeds
2. Don’t Mow your lawn, it’s probably not growing and going brown don’t worry it will grow back, established lawns that is!
3. Deadhead your finished flowers
4. Only water plants that need it, again conserve water, put trays under pots, and mulch plants.
5. Top up your ponds
6. Start collecting seeds.
7. Give your fruiting / flowering plants good tomatoes feed.
8.  Prune your shrubs.
9. If you want flowers for drying i.e. Lavender even bay leaves tie into little bunches and hang upside down.
10. Pick your herbs to encourage new shoots.