Sudocrem are working with Clifton and the charity Green Fingers. With the goal of getting children into the garden and into gardening.
Sudocrem are also involved as they have just launched a lovely new product called My Little Sudocrem which is perfect for those little green fingers.
It has been proven that a childhood spent outdoors helps children to grow up healthier and happier. My Dad was a keen gardener and I used to spend hours with him helping him grow his vegetables and some of my own. Which also passed down to my Daughter. As soon as she could walk she would always be found in the garden with Grandad helping him with his vegetables or with the fruit trees.
New research has shown
- Whilst 87% of British households have a garden, it is something that families are not enjoying together.
- Over half of British children aged between 4 and 8 are unable to name 5 vegetables or fruits grown in this country.
- 95% are unable to name 3 herbs
- Many of the children unable to identify a basic gardening tool. With 8% able to identify a trowel. 80% never having seen a rake before. 79% believing worms are bad for plants
Further research shows
- 73% have never seen a sunflower
- 8% have only picked an apple
- Less than 10% had dug up a vegetable
- 6% had ever eaten a fresh pea from the pod
How Sudocrem is involved
Many parents worry about their children getting the odd scratch. Which is where My Little Sudocrem comes in. It is a great multi-tasker for gardeners.
Should gardening be taught it schools?
Surprisingly children would love this. Although under half of the children surveyed had access to a garden at school, over 90% of them said they would like one.
A lovely Giveaway to get our children out in the garden
Sudocrem know the joys gardening can bring and are offering two of my lucky readers the chance to win a goody bag worth £40 each. The goody bag is suitable for 2-5 year olds and contains
- Get Out and Grow branded t-shirt for 3-4 year olds
- My Little Sudocrem
- Child’s gardening gloves
- Small watering can
- Flower seed packet
- Lavender seed packet
- A few coloured sticks to use as plant marker
I used to enjoy helping my parents with the gardening when I was young; I still like it now.
no i diddnt but my youngest son does x
yes we used to plant potatoes and lots of different veg still do
This would be great to get my son out and off the xbox
Yes, I loved gardening as a child.
I used to enjoy helping my grandfather in his garden, where he grew lots of vegetables as well as strawberries and raspberries.
I loved growing flowers but not potato picking (we had a big field of them…)
Yes I loved helping in the garden and watching my dad’s veggie patch grow
Yes I loved it and have lovely memories xx
Yes, I loved it so much that I wanted to be a horticulturalist. Dad allocated a small part of the garden just for me. Loved it.
We never had a garden when I was a kid. I have certainly made up for that now. My little boy loves gardening
My mum has always been a keen gardener so we were often involved planting and watering!
Yes I loved being in the garden, and I still do
I loved gardening and really enjoy it today with my kids
Don’t think I was allowed to do any gardening but love it now x
We didnt have a garden – we loved going to the woods and park
I didn’t enjoy gardening necessarily but we had a pond, which I loved. We’d always get a little bit of frogspawn and watch the frogs grow (and inevitably leave!) x
I used to love gardening, as long as it didn’t make me messy and dirty!
I enjoyed gardening as a child and still love it now.
I was always trying to help out in the garden when I was a kid, one year my dad let me have a small vegetable patch and I grew some lettuces. Still love gardening today it’s good for the soul
i didnt do much gardening as a child
My dad is a keen gardener and as a child i had my own area that I looked after. have continued this love of gardening and my children and grand children also have their own piece of garden and they love it
Awesome prize for my budding baby gardeners 🤞♥️
My dad was a gardener who used to enjoy teaching me how to garden.
As children we all had a box to garden, think my nan used to garden it when we went to bed, things always grew!
yes My love for anture and gardening began when I was little and living with my grandparents and i would help my grandfather in his garden, where he grew lots of vegetables as well as strawberries and goosebarries and beauiful flowers
I liked helping my big nan in the summerhouse
I absolutely loved gardening when I was little, I had my own little patch that I had to maintain
No, but I love it now
i used t love “helping” my mum, shame i just kept pulling up plants instead of weeds!
I think I did, but I have little memory of doing so!
I remember my wellies and watering can!
Yes, I used to like searching for and picking up worms 🙂
I used to love harvesting the rhubarb at the bottom of my Grandma’s garden.
No as a child I hated it, but my mum never made it fun, it was always hard slog. As I grew older and had my own garden I really grew to love it and now have a collection of beautiful flowers especially roses.
Yes, I have fond memories growing sunflowers
No, I didn’t.
I used to love cutting the grass much to my parents’ delight!
I loved gardening as a child but I don;t think I was much help to my mum!
Yes loved pottering around the garden as a child with my parents!
we had an allotment and my dad was a market gardener by trade, so it has always been a part of our lives
loved it! and now my little one does too – love our times together in the garden!
yes loved gardening with my dad and still love it now 45+ years later
I did, we grew a few veggies every year
Yes, my mum shared her love of gardening with me 🙂
I loved growing vegetables as a child but I wasn’t very good at it and most of them died
I loved planting my pea seed, watching them grow and then picking them to eat as I played outside
I dont ever remember gardening as a child, but i actively encourage my son to join me in the garden these days
No, there were to many creepy crawlies
I enjoyed planting carrots.
i always loved helping my grandmother in the garden
Not so much gardening – more making mud pies
yes i loved playing and working in the garden as a child and now too
I used to love gardening with my nan and grandad
I was a wartime baby in London so we couldn’t get out into the garden for fear of being shot at. I do remember seeing a German plane overhead which then went on to bomb the local school.
I didn’t have a garden as a child, just a back yard. Now we have a garden we make sure the children are involved in planting and watering
Yes I used to help my Grandad with the weeding and used to love it! Wish I loved that task as much as I did then
Yes – I loved planting veg at school.
Yes, I loved it.
I LOVE TO GROW THINGS
I remember loving watering the plants and tomatoes in the greenhouse and trying to grow a sunflower
Used to love gardening with my dad on his allotment – I had my own little patch which I loved
I loved gardening! Still do but not so amazing at it!
Not really just as an adult when I got my own garden!
Yes, I always enjoyed gardening when I was young and helping my parents in the Summer months.
I used to love gardening with my nan – she was war era so used to grow her own fruit and veggies in the back garden and flowers in the front. I have many happy memories of helping her pick runner beans, watering the garden from the rain water collected in the water butt, digging up potatoes and hours weeding the flower patch
i didn’t mind as a child but as an adult i don’t enjoy it!!
As a child we only ever ate home grown vegetables. I’d love to get back to doing that
I did, always liked to ‘help’ mum and dad
Yes I used to love helping out in the garden as a child and I still enjoy it now.
My grandfather had a market garden where he grew gladioli and also had blackcurrant bushes and kept bees whose honey he sold locally. We knew it as The Ranch and had a caravan there where we spent many a happy summer
Yes we used to love planting seeds
Yes, I loved reading as a child… I love reading to my children now who loves books just as much as I did. xx
I loved being in the garden with my Dad and Granddad, helping out where I could
Yes I liked helping my dad when I was younger
Yes.
I absolutely loved gardening as a child, my children and I love gardening
didnt do much when we i was younger, but i love gardening now
Not at all!
I used to enjoy playing and helping in the garden
I loved picking strawberries
Yes, I loved gardening as a child 🙂
we didnt have a garden till i was 8 and i loved it
Yes, I used to help my Dad in the garden.
I was often out in my garden in my dungarees making mud pies and collecting worms x