Meet Joel,He's my friends 6 year old boy who lives in the city (concrete jungle) and has never been to an allotment before.
I soon got him interested and captivated by getting him to sow some peas.....
He wasn't too keen on getting his hands all muddy, but I soon got him over that......
On plot 121, we planted 24 sweetcorn plants that I bought (shock horror) from Wyevales yesterday especially for the occassion.
His mum arrived with wellies, a hand fork & a hand trowel, so he had all his own gear to get going....
So after digging a few holes, and dropping in a few "blades of grass" as he called them!! I got him going back and forth to the tap with the watering can......
After all the watering was completed, we also planted a couple of cucumber plants just to the right of the photo, so they were watered in aswell.....
We then had to go back to 144 for a little break....
As Joel had aching muscles from carrying the watering can & digging (poor little lamb).....
However his spirits were soon lifted when I gave him his very very first freshly picked pea pod to eat -
his verdict
"Delicious!"
So I picked some more for him to take home for later
So Joel is one city boy that now wants to be a farmer / allotmenteer, wondering how he can grow peas indoors........
2 comments:
Ali, he's so sweet and you sound like you enjoyed teaching him some gardening techniques.
Bless him - glad to see you are putting him to work!
Your sweetcorn seedlings are looking great - will have to pop up and see you soon.
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