'Precious Play' ideas: Miss J's garden #2

What is going on with this weather? Crikey! It's not really like May is it? It's cold! At times I wonder if our little seedlings will be ok at night in 3-6 degree Celsius temperatures. Where will this climate change take our future food? .....

Miss J's garden corner was looking ready to sow a few weeks ago anyway so we decided to dig it. The seeds we'd sown previously in heated propagators didn't seem to take off so we opted for sowing the seeds directly instead. A little late, but everything was late in the garden this year as its just been so cold and wet. I think I'm going to put the heated propagators up for sale. They haven't produced anything strong ever. No idea why. 

All our seeds are heirloom organic seeds. What's the point in supporting giant food and seed companies selling hybrid seeds and having to crawl back to buy more GM seeds every year. I'd like the control to be in our hands, and I'd like homegrown organic non-sprayed veg grown from our own seed.  Miss J had the option to pick any seeds from the pile and decided she'd go for peas, carrots, and lettuce. Great! She loves eating peas and carrots, maybe this will get her eating lettuce! 

We dug over her garden, and 'groomed' it. ie. took out all weeds, lumps, stones (the big ones anyway) and sticks and added our own compost from last year. Then Miss J made 'semi' straight lines with the side of her hand, little trenches, and spread the seeds as evenly as she could before covering them  up gently. It didn't have to be perfect or symmetrical, what's the fun in that! ;)

Then off she went to find one of her 4 watering cans and filled it with river water and watered in her seeds. Voila! Very proud of my little girl. This time it's bound to work. I have much more faith in the polytunnel beds than in that propagator. 

....... That was about a month ago, and now?! Seedlings! Yippee! The carrots and peas are up, not quiet sure what happened to the lettuce, lol. Slugs or fairies maybe :)

Precious Play Ideas: Mummy & Miss J days

Seeing as time between Miss J and myself is rather limited at the moment we have come up with an idea - Mummy & Missy days!

A special day that we’ll do regularly, once or twice a month say, where Mummy and Miss J just go on an outing all day long, and it’ll just be the two of us. Like the old days. 

Miss J was ecstatic about the idea. We used to be like two peas in a pod, like best friends, but understandibly the last few months have been rather focused on Mr. T so I think we have some catching up to do. 

We decided to sit down and ‘draw’ up a list of things she enjoyed doing, and wanted to do on a Mummy & Missy day. Seeing as a list would be rather boring for a three  year old we made a ‘drawing list’. As you can see, most of the things she enjoys doing are on it: 

Horse riding, Indoor Activity Centre, Playground, Shopping, Swimming, Going to a friends house, Forest nature walk, A trip to the beach. 

Then, when the day comes she can pick any two of those things, and off we go. Looking forward to it! Can’t wait! 

Once Mr. T is old enough I can have Mummy & Mr days too. Camping, Motocross etc, whatever he's into, I can't wait :)