Chantal
Moderators: KG Steve, Chantal, Tigger, peter, Chief Spud
- Jenny Green
- KG Regular
- Posts: 1139
- Joined: Sat Nov 26, 2005 4:47 pm
- Location: East Midlands
Thanks for your post about the child sized tools at Aldi. I got a little broom, shovel and rake for the little man. Here's to a summer of 'helping'.
i bought some similar items for my two boys a while back and after being played with for a short time they were soon discarded. i tied the rake onto an old broom handle and find it an extremely useful tool in its own right.
BEWARE OF CHILD LABOUR!
Having purchased similar goods for my daughter (then aged 3) I managed to spend a few hours on a Saturday afternoon in the garden, but when I'd finished weeding etc, I found that my daughter had dug a nice hole in the gravel path and redistributed it to the brick path...and it wasn't normal bricks but 'Stable bricks' with a diamond pattern so that urine can soak away..however these groves trapped the gravel beautifully! Also gravel had been put inside the hole which took the rotory clothes drier ...impossible to get out!
Having purchased similar goods for my daughter (then aged 3) I managed to spend a few hours on a Saturday afternoon in the garden, but when I'd finished weeding etc, I found that my daughter had dug a nice hole in the gravel path and redistributed it to the brick path...and it wasn't normal bricks but 'Stable bricks' with a diamond pattern so that urine can soak away..however these groves trapped the gravel beautifully! Also gravel had been put inside the hole which took the rotory clothes drier ...impossible to get out!
I don't suffer from insanity .... I enjoy it!
Vivianne
Vivianne
- Jenny Green
- KG Regular
- Posts: 1139
- Joined: Sat Nov 26, 2005 4:47 pm
- Location: East Midlands
Lol! Yes, the little man has helpfully uprooted cabbage seedlings and particularly enjoys redistributing the beds over the bark chip path. But the choice between having a 'helper' and getting nothing done at all is no choice!
I would also like to cultivate (ha ha) his enthusiasm for gardening, even if it is at the expense of a few disasters.
I would also like to cultivate (ha ha) his enthusiasm for gardening, even if it is at the expense of a few disasters.
- pigletwillie
- KG Regular
- Posts: 723
- Joined: Thu Nov 24, 2005 6:38 pm
- Location: Leicestershire
All the misfires will be worth it Jenny when he is a strapping teenager who does your winter digging for you.
Kindest regards Piglet
"You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind".
"You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind".