Cooking And Gardening For Young Children.
Cooking And Gardening For Young Children.
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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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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... Harvesting Peas11/04/2011 12:42:00 Harvesting Peas There are lots of different types of peas - ones where you eat the whole pod, just the pea, where you eat the pod swollen, where you eat it flat... How do you know when to harvest them? This lovely video from Claire Burgess shows you what a pea pod looks like when it is ready and how to harvest a mange tout. However most of the peas she harvests get eaten during the video! Just shows how irresistible they are! ... Saving Pea Seeds11/04/2011 12:41:00 Saving Pea Seeds Pea seeds are one of the easiest seeds to save for free seed next year. You always end up letting a few pods grow too long anyway, so pick them, put them to one side and dry them for next year. It's easy to let a few pods mature when a plant is nearing the end of its life and producing less pods. This useful video from Praxxus55712 shows you how to save your pea seeds. It's a long video covering many crops but the peas are in the first minute. ... |