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Rainy Day Kids’ Activity: Sowing winter veg
Piper and I have been sowing seeds for winter vegetables this afternoon. It’s fun to do with children of any age when outside is stormy and wet, and inside is a much nicer prospect. Northern hemisphere folks sow summer veg for a school holiday activity.
Learning to grow vegetables is a valuable and important life skill.
10 Easy Steps
1. Find something in your recycling that will make a suitable plant pot. Suggestions: bottom half of plastic milk bottles, yoghurt pots, bottom half of egg cartons.
2. Fill the receptacles with compost. Get organic compost from your local nursery/garden centre or use sifted homemade compost.
3. Plant seeds. Suggested for winter: Swiss chard, spinach, some lettuces, some carrots, onions, peas.
4. Water.
5. Admire.
6. Put in a sunny window.
7. Water daily or when dry.
8. Wait.
9. Harvest.
10. Eat.
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