My children's 'potion' garden

[Durgan]

What a fun day I had with my two young boys today. .

Nicely done! Now give the children a few square feet of space for a vegetable patch. A downspout collector for rainwater would be nice. You are a good parent, most admirable. Congratulations.

[countrychic]

What a fun day I had with my two young boys today. .

Nicely done! Now give the children a few square feet of space for a vegetable patch. A downspout collector for rainwater would be nice. You are a good parent, most admirable. Congratulations.

lol. I have just that already. They have beans, peas, cucumbers, lettuce, brinjal, tomato, zucchini, strawbs, and spinach growing. My hubby has hot peppers.
Also as the garden gets bigger and more watering is needed, we installed two 1000 litre tanks on our downspouts. All water falling in our gutters is now collected in these tanks. It was a blessing last summer when we had water bans in our area.

[countrychic]

bleeding hearts
monkshood
love lies bleeding
poor mans orchid (the name my son adopted for his band)
jacobs ladder
poached egg flower
sneezewort
flea bane
dead nettle (lamium)
bee balm

Love these ideas on some more interesting plants! thank you. I will keep my eye open for them. Monkshood is poisonous, unfortunately.

[Booker]

I love this garden! I would love to do something similar in my backyard. Did you build the fort yourself?
Kathleen

[(old_user)earwig]

What a great idea. I will be having my two small grandchildren to stay a few times this summer and I can just imagine the fun they would have with this.

[joan w]

What a great way to get your boys on the road to gardening.

[countrychic]

We did build the fort ourselves this spring. Much cheaper to do it ourselves!
We still have to add some climbing attachments, like monkey bars.

My son (7) had a friend over this weekend, and he dragged his friend to come and see 'my garden'. I stood a little away to give them space, but just within earshot. My son was showing his friend each plant and naming them! 'here's lungwort, and dragon's blood, and there is spiderwort...' It was so cute, then up the fort they went.

I also found a huge ceramic toad at a garage sale to sit by the entrance. I didn't tell the boys I had it, just quietly placed it there. Only later that afternoon, did I hear my youngest son shouting 'I found a huge toad! Come and look!' I said 'how did that get there' lol

[evepet]

What a neat idea! Great way to get your sons interested in the garden. And wonderful that you can share this experience with them. Since your 7-yr old so ably rhythmed off the names of 'his' plants, he's obviously learning a lot.

[Booker]

Did you have a plan for your fort? I am looking for something similar.
Kathleen