Tag Archives: gardening

Photo of the week – Strawberry picking

Posted on July 13, 2013 by over40andamumtoone

We’ve been growing our own fruit and veg as you’ll all know, I needed to pick a photo of the week and decided on this one, taken of Monkey earlier this week, picking his own strawberries. Linking up with Team … Continue reading →

Posted in Family life, Photo of the Week | Tagged fruit, gardening, grow your pown, My monkey, Photo of the week, pick your own, strawberries | 2 Comments

#MagicMoments – picking strawberries

Posted on July 8, 2013 by over40andamumtoone

This week’s Magic Moments is also my 200th post 🙂 As you know we’ve been growing some of our own fruit and vegetables with Monkey. Our little garden is constantly changing as the various projects grow – tomato plants, courgettes, … Continue reading →

Posted in Family life, Magic moments | Tagged #MagicMoments, 200th post, garden, gardening, growing fruit and vegetables, My monkey, picking own fruit, strawberries | 17 Comments

BritMums’ #KidsGrowWild Challenge

Posted on June 19, 2013 by over40andamumtoone

This post is an entry for BritMums’ #KidsGrowWild Challenge with Moneysupermarket.com As regular readers of my blog will know we’ve been encouraging my Monkey 3 and half-year old son to grow his own vegetables. His seeds are sprouting and he … Continue reading →

Posted in Family life, Reviews | Tagged #KidsGrowWild Challenge, BritMums, children, competiton, flowers, gardening, growing vegetables, Little Pals, mixed flowers, Moneysupermarket.com, My monkey, pansy, sunflowers | 6 Comments

A little update on our My Seedlets post

Posted on June 15, 2013 by over40andamumtoone

We’re keen to get Monkey involved in the garden and have encouraged him to grow his own vegetables with the assistance of My Seedlets and The Handpicked Collection as you can see from my previous posts. I thought it was … Continue reading →

Posted in Family life | Tagged carrot, courgette, gardening, growing vegetables, lettuce, My monkey, My Seedlets, parsnip, pumpkin, rocket, The Handpicked Collection, update | 2 Comments

My Seedlets – time to plant some seeds with Monkey

Posted on May 28, 2013 by over40andamumtoone

As you’ll know from my previous post we were lucky enough to be sent a range of Children’s gardening tools and accessories along with some seeds from the My Seedlets range by The Handpicked Collection recently. We decided that as … Continue reading →

Posted in Family life | Tagged carrot, children, gardening, lettuce, My monkey, My Seedlets, parsnip, pumpkin, rocket, seeds, The Handpicked Collection | 2 Comments

Messing around in the Garden

Posted on May 27, 2013 by over40andamumtoone

I had intended on writing a post for Magic Moments about when Monkey was very little, but today has changed my mind. Monkey’s Daddy works very long hours and we only normally get to see him properly on Sunday’s. A … Continue reading →

Posted in Family life, Magic moments | Tagged Daddy, gardening, magic moment, My monkey, quality time, sandpit | 14 Comments

#MagicMoments our first shoots!

Posted on April 22, 2013 by over40andamumtoone

We recently planted some red pepper and tomato seeds with Monkey – see previous post Today our first two shoots are showing 🙂 We’re joining up with The Oliver’s Madhouse for #MagicMoments this week 🙂

Posted in Family life, Magic moments | Tagged #MagicMoments, gardening | 8 Comments

Green fingers are in the genes

Posted on April 7, 2013 by over40andamumtoone

Daddy P comes from a long line of Greengrocers and Florists so we decided that as Monkey is now 3 years old we should show him that vegetables don’t start life in Daddy’s cold rooms! I also grew up with … Continue reading →