Cooking And Gardening For Young Children.
Cooking And Gardening For Young Children.
Over the next few weeks we will be adding useful how to guides and videos to this section.
All real life examples of people working with children can be found in the Tried and Tested section of the resources area.
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Children's Cooking Skills How To (4)
Growing Things How To (1)
General Gardening Skills (1)
Growing Leeks (3)
Growing Peas (4)
Growing Potatoes (4)
Growing Tomatoes (7)
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Latest ResourcesGrowing Leeks From Seed09/06/2011 13:23:00 Growing Leeks From Seed. Leeks are a cheap food to grow from seed, you get hundreds of seeds in a pack. They can be sown straight in to the soil, but leeks sown this way have a lot of leaf and not much stem, which is the bit we want the most of! So to get a long white parthey have to be transplanted and buried deeper in to the soil. Therefore most gardeners start them off in a pot or seed tray in spring and then plant them out into their final place in the summer. This video fro... Transplanting Leeks09/06/2011 13:06:00 Transplanting Leeks After the seedlings have grown to anything between the size of a thin spring onion to a pencil, you need to transplant them. Leeks are one of the most unusual plants to transplant and while there are hundreds of different theories about how to do it best (trimming/not trimming, holes/trench, sow-direct/transplant etc) most vegetable gardeners do it the way which is shown in the videos below. It provides a longer white part of the leek which is, let's face it, what the ... Harvesting and Storing Leeks09/06/2011 12:52:00 Harvesting And Storing Leeks Because you have planted your leeks quite deep in the ground to increase the amount of white stem, you have to be a little careful pulling them out again, so you don't snap them off. This short video from Smart Growers shows you how: Heeling In "Heeling in" is a traditional technique used by vegetable gardeners. Essentially it means digging your mature leeks up and planting them again, but closer together an... How To Grow Peas In A Vegetable Bed11/04/2011 12:43:00 How To Grow Peas In A Vegetable Bed Peas are one of the easiest plants to grow, they are fast, and you get a really good crop from quite a small amount of soil. Best of all, fresh peas are irresistible, even to many picky eaters. This video from Kitchen Garden magazine gives a great overview of how to plant peas outside. It shows how to plant the seeds in a little drill, and how to transplant seedlings which you have started indoors. It also covers how to use pea sticks for the plant... How To Grow Pea Shoots11/04/2011 12:43:00 How To Grow Pea Shoots Of course most people grow pea plants for the peas or the pods, but you can also grow them for the plants themselves. Pea shoots are a very fashionable ingredient in fancy restaurants, and with good reason. They are sweet and crunchy and extremely nutritious. A great addition to any salad. Essentially you grow lots of pea plants close together, and then as they get a few inches tall and start to send out tendrils (but before getting tall and leggy) you har... |