Hello and welcome to Carrots and Kids!
I have to say, I'm not a gardening expert. I haven't done any horticultural courses delving into the biology of plants. I am a very ordinary, keen gardener.
I guess I should also admit to being quite fair weather and lazy too. I'd go as far to say that I am probably like most gardeners out there. My patch does not come close to being described as "x, y or z of an acre". I have very little money to throw at it. I am not going to be earning any gasps of admiration for the small, muddy, climbing frame choked patch of back garden. No siree.
What I do have is a fair amount of enthusiasm. And an urgent desire to grow what we eat. Or possibly, what the children will turn their noses up at eating, even if they have sown it themselves. I love hearing horticultural tales from others gardening in similar style. People who grow bountiful harvests from a small garden on a budget float my boat.
The stage of life I'm at means that I do Practical Gardening or Nourishing Gardening, as I like to think of it. Fruit, veggies and flowers for my jam jars. That's what I want to grow.
I attempt this on a very small allotment and in three raised beds and a greenhouse in our back garden. I attempt it while being a mother to five. Yes, they have all gardened. No, they do not all do it now. Some are teenagers and have better things to do.I cannot think what. But not to worry because I know I've planted the seeds of a potential love affair with gardening that may or may not ignite. I feel that's all I can expect.
I also have the privilige of passing on my scant knowledge and fizzing enthusiasm to other people's children in a school gardening club. I've done this for nearly five years and have been dragging various members of my own brood up to our allotment for nearly ten years. I feel I've just begun.
Here you'll get a peek into some of what I do. There will also be pictures of cake, because what's a visit to an allotment without a tin foil wrapped slice and a flask?
It's lovely to have you here.
