In My BackYard is a vegetable growing plot!
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In My BackYard is a vegetable growing plot! |
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Pocket Money Beans - parents pageGetting children into gardening is really important. It teaches them about care, about patience, about achievement, about reward. It requires only encouragement by parents. Pocket Money Beans are designed to "trick" you, the parent, into paying your children to grow beans. They grow the beans and sell them to you - you give them pocket money. But remember to pay only for produce and make sure you grumble about the high price of vegetables. Is it too devious? Hopefully both children and parents think so. Kids love getting one over their parents (mine do). And as parents, we love them right back. After all, we have paid so much for the beans, now they better eat them... Eating fresh vegetables is something we can't do too much of. If we can grow it ourselves it is the freshest possible. The idea for Pocket Money Beans sprouted (sorry) in mid-2005 as a give-away for an Environment Expo in Bowral. Beans were chosen as the ideal pocket money vegetable because:
The first Pocket Money beans were a bush bean called Strike. Alf Finch of Eden Seeds kindly donated 2 kilos which was packed into small labelled envelopes. Giving the beans away on the day was great fun. Both children and parents responded as I hoped they would.
The Pocket Money Bean stand at the Fair |
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