CHILDREN AND VEGETABLES - GROW YOUR OWN CHRISTMAS DINNER
Iain Ferguson Readers will have noticed this month’s delicious recipe is for mincemeat cake. Clearly as it is August, it’s ‘not just for Christmas’. However, turning to the garden, now is the time to prepare for your Christmas feast by planting seeds which, by the time they have grown, will be ready to grace your plates with Winners of the produce section at Lochaber Rural Education Trust. fresh produce straight out of your garden. Each packet contains the The study also said that Unlike carefully wrapped and potential for six different plants during Covid many parents and children had forged closer disguised presents, there is no - parsnip, carrot, cabbage, relationships by working need to wonder what they are cauilflower, carrots and sage, with which to make stuffing. together in the garden, so or where they can be bought. All are ready to be planted might this not provide another Right now, in certain local shops, are packets of Christmas and instructions on the packet opportunity for a happier run show the method and timings. up to the festive season? dinner seeds available at low prices. A recent study revealed There is no real need for a children are more likely to eat garden, as all of these plants vegetables if they know a bit can be grown in pots, not even about them, such as where requiring that much space. they have come from and how No prior experience is they are grown. needed either as it can be Christmas is, of course, a lot fun researching how to look about children - and possibly after the plants as they grow family discord about not eating and how to maintain the best certain things presented to conditions for them. them! Just think, your own fresh Perhaps a really early vegetables on Christmas day, Christmas present - you see with happy children proudly where I am going with this presenting and eating their could help nip some of this own, home grown, five-a-day. potentially disruptive attitude Start in August for a Merry in the bud! Christmas to everyone.
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