Spending time outdoors with the kids is good for everyone and if you can get them to help with the garden or plant up some pots even better. If you get them interested in gardening then who knows, you might have a little helper or indeed a gardening fan for life!
We’ve got a cute set of gardening tools for one lucky family to win. Read on to find out how to win!
Here are some top tips to get you inspired. All you’ll need is a pot or two, some earth, seeds and water.
Capture their interest
Plant brightly-coloured flowers, scented plants, tactile leaves and tasty, quick-growing, edible plants to keep children interested. There’s nothing better than sowing some cress and see it appear with in days. The RHS has some great ideas for plants to grow with children:
- Easy flowers – grow sunflowers, marigolds and poppies.
- Sensory plants to play with include rattling poppy seed heads, furry stachys byzantina and herbs such as thyme, basil and rosemary.
- Edible Plants – try growing cherry tomatoes, lettuce, runner beans and courgettes as there’s nothing better than eating your own five-a-day!
Make a Bee Hotel!
Bee numbers are falling, so by giving them a home you’ll be encouraging nature into your garden and helping bee populations. You don’t have to make a big hotel. You can make one easily using a terracotta plant pot (9 – 15cm in size), some modelling clay, plastic straws or bamboo canes and string. Here’s how.
- Cut the straws or bamboo canes to a length that fits the depth of your pot. If you are using bamboo canes you will need a grown up to carry out this part as it’s tricky.
- Tie the bundle of straws or canes together with a piece of string.
- Place some modelling clay in the bottom of the pot and stick the bundle of straws or canes in to the clay.
- Place the pot horizontally in your garden in a quiet place for the bees to move in.
For more gardening inspiration visit RHS
Win a gardening tool set!
To help you and your little ones get busy in the garden this summer, we are giving away a set of garden tools to one luck winner. To be in with a chance of winning, just send an email titled ‘My Nametags Gardening Competition IE’ to marketing@mynametags.com – full T&Cs below.
Terms & Conditions
- The two winners shall be drawn at random by My Nametags.
- Entrants must be residents of the Republic of Ireland.
- Entrants must be aged 18 or over.
- Competition closes at midnight on 07/08/2018
- Winners will be notified either by email within a week of the closing date.
- The winner will have 7 days to respond after which time we reserve the right to select an alternative winner.
- There are no cash or other prize alternatives available in whole or in part. We reserve the right to substitute a prize of equal or greater value in the event of unavailability of the intended prizes.
- The entries that are incomplete, illegible or fraudulent will be deemed invalid. No responsibility will be accepted for entries lost, corrupted or delayed in transmission.
- Bulk entries made from trade, consumer groups or third parties will not be accepted.
- Data is being held under the terms of our privacy policy and our company terms and conditions – please click links for more information.
- Entry into the competition authorises My Nametags to contact you,and publish your name on our blog should you be the winner
- The winner will receive one children’s garden tool set.
