At buds n blooms we are in the garden rain, hail and shine! The garden always needs tending to and lets face it - kids are kids - and need to get out whatever the weather.
Makuru - season of the first rains and the coldest and wettest time of year, and this year it has certainly been wet, WET, wet!! One of the favourite activities of the kids in our garden patch is watering. The act of filling those little colourful watering cans with water and dousing the wee seedlings and seeds with water keeps the kids totally engrossed and they just keep coming back for refills over, and over and over again!!! And this is A brilliant way of interacting with the garden - at all age levels. However, this season the watering cans are well and truely packed away! So . . . What can we do to get the kids involved and interacting in the garden in new and exciting ways throughout winter?? SNAILS!!! This week the kindies came to the garden looking for snails - and there were certainly plenty to find. AND the kids had a ball!!! There were squeals of excitement, kids naming their snails and take away boxes overflowing with these slimy critters that as gardeners we love to hate. But collecting snails brought so much enjoyment to the kids, and adults alike. And to be honest - i was quite happy that they were being removed from our brassicas and kale to be fed and nurtured by our budding gardeners ;-) (this is also a great activity to do in your home garden if you have very hungry chickens)
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Sarah Nix
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August 2018
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