Gardening
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Eight ways to get the kids gardening
With a small veg patch, raised bed or a couple of pots, your child can grow an appreciation of nature, learn maths and science skills – and revel in the wonder that is fresh, homegrown food!
Grow your own pesto
More summer jobs…
Homegrown herbal tea
Sow lettuce & salads
Listen to my BBC GYO Diaries
I’ve been helping people get growing with a monthly GYO Diary for BBC Radio Northampton on location from my Northampton allotment and town centre garden. Here’s a tasty selection…
Why I love gardening
My family history can be plotted by its potting sheds. My dad had a garden and an allotment, and his father before him, so I guess you could say gardening is in the genes. Or, at the very least, firmly embedded into the soil of our welly boots. Here’s me (above), carrying runner beans when I was a toddler!
Over 30 years, I’ve nurtured houseplants in a gloomy stairwell in Scotland, created tiny front garden veg patches, helped run a school garden club, and in 2007 found my roots at a sprawling urban allotment plot in Northampton. Now I’m lucky enough to have two.
Gardening has helped me discover a deep-rooted love for the natural world and homegrown food. It’s encouraged me to eat better, stay fit (in mind and body) – and, of course, get muddy.
