I married a farmer’s son, so it was inevitable that we were going to grow stuff in the garden and not just flowers. This became even more important to us when we had children. We wanted to show them where their food came from and to encourage them to grow their own. This year we are growing shallots, potatoes, carrots, parsnips, peas, runner beans, broad beans, cabbages, cauliflowers, salad leaves, radish, spring onions, tomatoes, strawberries (in hanging baskets) and an array of herbs (dill, basil, cress, flat parsley, chives, mint, sage and fennel).
Center Parcs challenged us to share with you a day in our garden for this months Tots100 Center Parcs Outdoor Challenge.
So this weekend I gave my phone and camera to the boys and here is a weekend in our garden. It helped that this weekend was a perfect one weather wise with lots of sun.
MadDad wields a pen all week in his job, so loves getting his hands dirty at the weekend and this weekend has been no exception, he has build a planter out of scraps of wood. He has relaid a patio and cleaned it too. Hard to believe that eight years ago this was all just mud as we live in a new build.
The boys and their friends pretty much come and go in the garden and the grass sees games of football, cricket, rugby and tennis on a regular basis (we are lucky that our neighbours just throw the balls back)!
This weekend also saw the first of what we hope to be many BBQ’s on our trusty charcoal outback BBQ which is now over ten years old.
This weekend also saw me taking a rather nasty tumble which I ended up on the garden fork, thank goodness I am OK though and it was a blunt fork. My Trousers bear the holes and not my legs which are rather cut and scraped to say nothing of my ego as all the neighbours saw and heard. I was well looked after though as one is a GP and two are nurses!
‘I’m a Center Parcs Family Blogger and I visited Whinfell village with my family (See our review here). If you want to enter to win a place as a wildcard winner just go to the challenge page to find out how http://bit.ly/1okzxJv’
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