With the nation still in lockdown, and children still at home instead of returning to school after the Easter break. It is nice to give them something more to get excited over. Which is why I have teamed up with Sudocrem and their latest Back To The Garden campaign.
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About Back To The Garden
Whether you have a garden, balcony, allotment or windowsill, gardening is something that everyone can enjoy. Children especially love planting seeds and watching them grow. As it is spring time this is the perfect time for planting seeds.
With schools being closed fo an indefinite period, this does not mean an end to education. As millions of parents all over the UK look for new ways to keep children busy, British skincare brand, Sudocrem, launches their new Back to the Garden campaign. An initiative to get families back into planting and growing, wherever they are.
Encouraging our children
Encouraging your children to plant seeds and take an interest in growing can give them a long–term project to focus on, away from the computer. And the good news is, you don’t need a garden to get involved: creating a window box full of edible herbs can be just as inspiring as digging a vegetable patch.
“It’s been good to see a return to activities like gardening during this unusual period,” says ecologist, author and nature educator, Michael Holland. “We often forget how good for our wellbeing gardening can be: it’s relaxing, it’s soothing and the garden is a fantastic place for families to enjoy together – it makes us feel good to nurture seedlings as they grow to become vegetables or flowers.”
A Helping Hand
Teaming up with gardeners and garden centres all over the nation. Sudocrem’s Back to the Garden campaign will encourage children and their parents to begin their own gardening projects at home or in the garden. The initiative will include tips and advice on potting plants. Plus spotting a weed and keeping your plants healthy from gardeners all over the UK. Sudocrem will also be donating one hundred growing kits to families all over the UK to kick-start their growing projects.
“Right now, there arearound 5 million children under the age of 10who need activities to get them through the next few months,” says Alice Bamford, Sudocrem brand manager. “At Sudocrem, we want to give families a hand as best we can.”
Soothing Those Hands
Gardening can be harsh on delicate skin, as every gardener knows. From contact with cold water when watering the plants, digging in the mud for weeds. Planting new seeds and planters, using tools – it’s a hands-on activity. Even standing outside in the sun can cause damage and dryness to the face and neck. Then there’s getting pricked by rose thorns, stung by nettles and insects, scraped knees….
Gardener’s new best friend comes in the pocket-sized form of My Little Sudocrem, the Swiss army-knife of soothing skincare products. Loved by everyone from babies to teenagers, runners to cyclists, mountaineers to gardeners and anyone in between.
The Giveaway
Hopeful gardeners can enter a competition to win one of 3 gardening goody bags HERE. Prizes include an inside and an outside gardening kit. Please see below for details of full prize contents.
And for an extra chance to win £100 of garden centre vouchers, upload a photo of your garden and tag @Sudocrem, #BackToTheGarden & #SudocremBTTGcomp on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to enter. Terms and Conditions apply. See below on how to enter
A few things including Gooseberries, rhubarb and runnerbeans with my Dad.
Sunflowers and cress probably the 2 easiest things to grow, I’m actually growing some sunflowers now
Sunflowers! I want to grow some again this year.
I used to love growing peas with my Grandad but they never made it to the dinner table because we used to eat them straight from the pods as soon as they were ripe
I used to grow sunflowers and herbs x
I loved the Strawberries my dad used to grow when I grew up
I grew lettuce and carrots & rhubarb with my grandparents, loved picking off a Rhubarb getting a bowl of sugar and dipping it in and eating it, can hear my nan now saying you will get tummy ache eating like that.
Sunflowers and strawberries
I used to grow sunflowers, rhubarb and mint as a child
sunflowers and strawberries
Tomatoes
strawberrys xx
Sunflowers and cress
sunflowers
Carrots, strawberries and rhubarb
Lettuces, was very proud of my lettuces
Cress, wildflowers, tomatoes
My parents had an allotment so we used to grow pretty much all our own fruit and veg. Now I’ve refenced my garden, I’m going to start a veg patch and herb garden of my own.
First plants were geraniums grown on my bedroom widowsill
I used to help my mum grow her veg and fruit. I remember endless days spent shelling peas and topping and tailing gooseberries
Potato’s
We used to have a vegetable plot so grew all sorts (potatoes, carrots, tomatoes etc)
Cress in eggshells and beans in a jam jar
carrots, sunflowers, sweet peas, sweetcorn…….. anything that there was seeds for
I used to spend hours with my dad at the allotment growing every fruit and vegetable you could think of that would grow here.
I used to grew sunflowers, they have always been my favourite flower
My family used to grow loads of veg as a child. I can remember growing carrots, and remember how they tasted so much nicer than shop bought ones
I didn’t get much beyond mustard and cress I’m afraid. Anyway, I have a second childhood to fill…..
I didnt! Complete inner city childhood x
strawberries and watercress
Me and my grandad always grew strawberries ad sunflowers and till this day he always plants 3 sunflowers for my children to grow xx
cress
we used to grow tomatoes in our front porch as it used to get the sun on it perfectly
Lots of tomato’s – yummy!
I used to grow sunflowers and cress 🙂
I use to grow cress
My grandad used to grow tomato plants and I used to help him look after them in his little greenhouse.
I had a little allotment of my own for onions potatoes cabbage etc, I planted a bramble that is still there over 30 years later! My parents still enjoy the blackberries!
strawberries
We grew carrots and potatoes when I was growing up, my Dad was very good at gardening x
I remember growing tomatoes
passing the time in the garden with the kids!
I remember growing a Sunflower in my grandmas garden & it really over towered my brothers, I was so proud of that haha 🙂
strawberries and peas
Potatoes, Tomatoes, Green Beans
I remember growing cress and grass seeds heads.
I remember growing sunflowers 😀 I haven’t tried them with my kids yet though.
I used to grow radishes and salad leaves, I was excellent at harvesting raspberries, strawberries and rhubarb tho’
I used to grow radishes and cornflowers
I remember growing mustard and cress indoors!
Strawberries
We always grew sunflowers as a child. I loved watering them and measuring how much they’d grown!
I had a little allotment of my own for onions potatoes cabbage etc, I planted a bramble that is still there over 30 years later! My parents still enjoy the blackberries!
Sunflowers
Cress and rhubarb
i remember growing cress at school!
Sunflowers
Tomatoes 🙂
As a child I remember growing beetroot and carrots. I had my own garden patch but there was never much room as I filled it with graves for my pets and all the birds and insects that had passed on!
i always remember growing carrots! My sister grew a buddleia bush and its still there now!
I used to grow sunflowers and radishes in y parents garden
WE grew Cress a lot when I was little cus it was easy x
i used to love growing radish
tomatoes
Marrows
Sunflowers, tomatoes and lettuce
I used to grow tomatoes and loganberries
I used to grow Cress as my mum used to love it in her sandwiches.I never did like it though.We also used to grow strawberries and rhubarb and mum made the most amazing crumbles with them.
Pansies and sunflowers!
ruhbarb peas cress tomatoes and potatoes
Corn on the cob. Was never edible but kept on trying!
I used to love growing strawberries with my dad
I used to grow peas with my grandma, she would sit and eat them raw but I really can’t stand peas even now!
We only had a balcony but had a tomato plant and chilli plant,
now I have my own garden and have been getting into growing more stuff
My mum is an avid gardener so we always had a vegetable garden, potatoes, carrots, rhubarb, gooseberries, beans, peas it was always wonderful to help her in the garden as a child.
First thing I remember growing was cress in cotton wool
I used to grow sweet peas, tomatoes and potatoes with my mum and dad.
Cherry tomatoes, sunflowers for the garden birds and zinnias to surprise grandma with.
I used to love growing cress on the windowsill!
I would love to go back and do that sounds amazing x
We grew runner beans every year. Used to love picking them with my dad
Tomatoes & Marrows
marigolds
Cress and carrot tops
My dad taught me how to grow tomatoes
Tomatoes and courgettes
I remember growing rhubarb as a child!
Tomatoes, sunflowers and cress heads.
Gooseberries and Strawberries. It was always a challenge to pick the strawberries before the dog ate them.
Cress and rhubarb!
I used to grow runner beans with my nan all the time
I have always used Sudocrem for my little ones as they were growing up and we always have a tub now in case for minor burns. Back to the Garden sounds like a wonderful project
Potatos
As a child the first thing I grew was cress the I moved on to radishes
Tomatoes. I used to help my grandad grow his in his greenhouse x
I lived in a pub when I was a child which didn’t have a garden so didn’t grow anything, but now I grow both flowers & vegetables usually from seed.
I can always grow radish and potato
I used to love growing cress in cotton wool in an egg shell
I remember growing strawberries in my little patch at home! My little boy loves to ‘help’ in the garden and likes keeping an eye on the new plants!
Cress, coriander and potatoes but unfortunately this success did not translate in to adulthood
Marrows
We used to grow cress when we were very little at school !
Flowers of all types
i used to grow peas and potaotes
Strawberries and tomatoes
I loved to grow peas – and definitely not carrots
I used to grow sunflowers, thanks for the chance to win.
I grew vegetables with my parents on their allotment – I’m not quite sure I was very helpful but I definitely liked watering!
I loved growing sunflowers!
Tomatoes in old pop bottles
I grew sunflowers, I always wanted mine to be the tallest flower
Sunflowers and carrots xx
I used to help my nan in her garden as a child – she grew all her own fruit and veggies – I loved picking the runner beans we had grown and also the chrysanthemums (you can save the flowers and then use them for seeds for the following year)
Lovely tall sunflowers to see who could get the tallest one!
Sunflowers although my grandad let me help with strawberries
i remember trying to grow potatoes
I remember growing parsley and marrows with my dad as a child
Sunflowers and strawberries!
Every year me and my sisters would have a sunflower contest
We grew sunflowers every summer.
Me and my sister would have competitions to grow the tallest. One year my dad fed mine plant food in secret so mine grew huge!
I always grew Sunflowers
tomatoes and cress
I used to grow sunflowers as a child, thanks for the chance to win.
lots of tomatoes!
We used to grow runner beans and potato’s
we used to grow cress on the windowsill!!
tomatoes x
The only thing I tried to grow was a sun flower
Lots of different bedding plants
Sunflowers, and I love to grow them even more now in my own garden
cress in eggshells!
sunflowers
Sunflowers! I am actually growing one now during lockdown 🙂
My nan always grew rhubarb when I was a child.
Waiting for an allotment, so this would be great.
What did you used to grow as a child?
simple things ie just cress and mustard seed
Sunflowers is the only thing I remember growing. My grandad grew a lot of veg and I remember stealing peas in the pod and trying not to get caught
Runner beans
I really don’t remember growing anything, which is strange as we had a big garden and greenhouse.
We used to grow strawberries
sunnflowers!
Cress growing out of eggshells & our schools annual hyacinth growing competition!
Fab give away
Tomatoes. My grandad had allotment and would let me help me.
We used to love growing strawberries.
I remember growing herbs in little pots and picking them to add to our cooking.
We used to try and grow sunflowers, they were never very successful though. My daughter loves to grow seeds, so this prize would be perfect for her.
Carrots
As I child I would take the seeds out of any vegetable or fruit we had and plant them. I was very successful at it. My best achievement was a pepper plant I grew.
Herbs
I used to help my mum in her garden, so I was growing everything . My favourite were freshly picked tomatoes – so juicy and full of flavour (not like the ones in the shops).
I used to grow carrots when i was a child with my dads help
I used to grow the mustard and cress on blotting paper and then progressed to growing sunflowers
I grew sunflowers with my Granddad every summer, they were beautiful.
I remember growing mint and rhubarb in my grandfathers garden!
sunflowers
I was brought up in the USA we travels and moved a lot so often was in a home long enough to grow anything but I can remember one home in Texas it was hot with little rain we grew Hibiscus, geranium and a plant called rock angles drought loving plants . When we came to visited my grandad in the UK he planted forget me not seeds with me and they are now my favourite flower.
Cress & Sunflowers
I used to love growing marigolds with my dad as a kid
I used to grow carrots and potatoes when I was a child
we grew tomatoes as kids..it was great fun to watch them grow
Not alot.. I can remember having my own pot of pansies at my nans house. I have started planting little bits at home with my daughter now. Strawberries, radishes and spring onions at the moment. Hoping to get better at gardening and increase the amount we grow.
I had a little plot where I grew marigolds.
Cress seeds on cotton wool in an eggshell
I used to grow cress in eggshells.
My grandad had an allotment and I had my own little patch where he helped me to grow peas and cauliflowers. My happiest memories of him are at this allotment.
It’s a long time ago! Mum used to love her garden so she would buy me packets of seeds to try and grow. It was fun, but not always productive!
Mustard and Cress seeds sunflowers and peas
I loved growing daffodils as a child
We grew lettuces, 100 of them!
Not much! I think I may have attempted cress and a sunflower.
My dad grew all our veg, and had a little orchard at the bottom of our garden, and chickens, so I just learnt from a very early age. He was also a huge rose expert too.
Rhubarb
cress and cherry tomatoes
I didn’t grow very much as a child as my parents weren’t very green fingered! My brother and I did plant a conker tree as kids though, and it’s still thriving to this day
Runner beans where my favourite thing to grow as a child. They are delicious when fresh.
My mum taught me to grow cress first and then basic flower seeds and I even had a strawberry plant
I used to grow all sorts of vegetables, we had a massive vegetable plot and grew all our own vegetables
I remember starting off with cress and then going on to bigger and better like tomatoes and spring onions
Have grown tomatoes as far back as I can remember
Rhubarb
Runner Beans in blotting paper on the school window ledge and then mustard and cress on a paper hankie in a saucer at home.
My grandad had an allotment and as a child we spent hours together I helped grow potatoes tomatoes kidney beans salad leaves as well
Tomatoes and Potatoes
Can remember growing cress on damp paper towels at school x
Gardens are nice
We started off with radishes as they are quick to mature then carrots and tomatoes.
I think gardening is a great way for me to teach my little girl all about patience and gently caring for something over time
I grew cress in eggshells with drawn on faces on the window sill
sunflowers 🙂
Peas. Great fun. I still garden today on my allotment.
I always grew sunflowers and sweet peas as a child!
Sunflowers and cress
I used to grow sunflowers. Easy to grow and they were always taller than me when I was a wee one which looked great in photos
We’d love it, yes please
This would be very welcome during current lockdown!
Radishes and strawberries
i used to grow peas
Sweet peas and the scent take me straight back to childhood
We used to grow sunflowers but I’d like to grow some veg with my children
It was always sunflowers when I was a child
Lovely way to pass the time in the garden with the kids!
I remember growing sunflowers with my nan in her garden every year as a kid.
I used to grow Sunflowers every Summer and still do 🙂 I used to also grow garden peas with my granda.
Carrots!
Used to grow mustard and cress and always helped my grandfather growing tomato plants in his greenhouse
Peas and tomatoes.
Cress! Lol. In an egg shell with cotton wool. Was also known for the odd sunflower or two 🙂
Sunflowers, sewwt peas and salad vegetables x
potatoes
Fab giveaway, we couldn’t live without our garden
I loved growing things. Potatoes used to be my fav. It never failed to amaze me that you could just dig them out of the ground!
Tomatoes
Rhubarb
Mustard and Cress in cotton wool
Luckily my niece and nephew were born into green fingers! They love to help their favourite aunt, and their nanny to plant different fruit and vegetables and luckily they love eating it too. It’s a nightmare to get them to wear gloves though, they love to touch everything!