Our vegetable garden is slowly but surely starting to grow. The sweet peas have germinated…
… and so have our beans!
One little fellow aptly described the day of germination as, “their birthday!” The germination process has been so exciting that it has triggered the desire amongst some of the children to get right back into planting. Mmmm… but what, and where?
Just a day later, two little girls burst through the door at preschool with packets of Freesia bulbs in their hands. “Look Karen,” their excitement bubbling forth, “Flowers! Daddy got them.” So we quickly hunted out a pot from the shed and planted them up.
What a delightful sensory experience they will be when they flower!
For a long time now I have been thinking that it would be great to have an old wheel-barrow to plant some herbs in. A quaint little feature alongside our vegetable garden. Well amazing things do happen don’t they? By chance, someone chose to dump an old wheel-barrow and ladder in the car-park beside our preschool fence. So with the ‘finders-keepers’ rule in mind, I wheeled it through the gate one day as the children watched on excitedly.
It was moved into place …
… and some potting mix was added.
Then it was time to plant some more seeds. This time Coriander, Basil and Parsley.
The seeds were watered in…
… with a little water saved for Mr Chubby’s flowers!
Ah, job done!
Although he never smiles, we know Mr Chubby loves it when we sit and keep him company at lunchtime.
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