Parenting with Plants! ...

Runner Beans, Courgettes, Tomatoes, Mange Tout and the piece de resistance Sweetcorn! Our little vegetable plot is producing vegetables at a great rate of knots! Due to our less than expert status we let some of the courgettes stay on the plant an extra day, which resulted in them becoming the size of prize marrows overnight!

But! The grand plan seems to be working. Now my young helper is keen to see what to do with our vegetables. He is intrigued by how they are prepared, surprised at how many different ways there are to cook them and, most importantly of all, determined to find out what they taste like!

I don't know how long this will last, but if we can grow enough, different types of veg, then maybe He'll get a taste for it and develop a healthy diet from an early age.

We're experimenting with salad plants now and I wonder if eating the produce raw will be better or worse (from and eight year olds perspective ...).

I love it when a plan comes together ...

Regards,

Nigel.