Vasili's Garden Episodes
Never too young to Garden!
Actually you are never too old to learn about gardening from the young ones either!
That makes more sense.
If it doesn’t then that means you are not listening to today’s young ones.
The kids now days want to participate more and more in gardening and everything about sustainable living, and it’s as if it really comes natural to them.
You know what… It really does!
When you take a child and show them some basic techniques on traditional gardening practices, they absorb this information like a sponge, yes like a sponge! Not like us older crustier types who forget everything that’s said the moment it’s said. Even some of us can’t string two words together to make any sense!
A bit like my writing at the moment!
Nevertheless, these children are our future and what we’ve done to their future is left to be desired, that’s another can of worms that we should leave to discuss for another day.
This week we ventured out to Kilsyth South to meet young James, they say never work with kids and animals on TV, well James is fast proving that theory wrong.
James who is still only in single digits for his age knows a whole lot about sustainable gardening, a big thank you to his parents David and Kellie who willingly share their knowledge and allow young James to get involved out in the garden with them.
For me personally, it was a wonderful experience, I turn up to their home as a guest and have their young ones which include Emma, James’ sister, take me for a tour around their garden and they sure do know about everything that’s growing in their garden, how it grows, when it’s ready for picking and even the benefits of mulching the garden.
As James said himself, “We got this mulch with dad, the council made this from some trees they cut down and we went and picked some up to put in our garden, it’s good for the plants and it was for free, we didn’t have to pay for it.” James said proudly.
And the gardening didn’t stop there, James showed me his veggie patch and explained how all the plant varieties grow and we even picked some Broad Beans and dug up some potatoes too.
The list goes on and on, from feeding the chooks to adding green scraps into the compost bin, even draining the worm juice from the worm farm, children these days should be allowed to be more involved with gardening at home and even at schools. They need to learn just like James, about good old traditional gardening practices so that they can better understand what it means to live a more sustainable lifestyle as opposed to living off the supermarket shelf.
We owe it to the kids of today so make an effort and teach them and I will bet you a home visit with my camera crew that every child who gets involved with gardening will love it, and they will even start to eat all their veggies too!
Maresi!
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