The lovely people in Woodies asked us to review their new range of gardening kits for kids, so we said (with our fingers crossed!) “why don’t you send us some  and we can try them out”………….and so they did!! (yipee!!)  My children were sooo excited when they saw them, and couldn’t wait to get planting the seeds that came in the kits. I have to confess the sets did sit for a week or two on my kitchen counter while I worked up the energy to garden with my children (being the super mum that I am!!),

So last week we set out all the seeds and tools and Stephen bought a “Giant” bag of compost and we eventually did our planting.  I have to admit I felt guilty for not doing it sooner, because the kids enjoyed themselves so much, they really loved using everything.  We were very organised and put Luke and Karla’s names on the trays (because they were fighting over everything!!) and I labeled the actual plants, so we knew what was growing where. (Make sure you do this before and peat is introduced!!!)

We planted the carrots, lettuce, runner beans, pumpkins and water cress, that we were sent. I have bought seeds before with a view to ‘planting’ them!!  and the children never got very excited about it, but the Woodies seeds have illustrations of animals and plats so they were very attractive to Luke and Karla.

We really had a lovely afternoon planting, and even though I was reluctant to at first,  we are definitely going to do some more gardening because the children are dying to use the kid safe ‘Secateurs’ (clippers!!) that came in the pack.

I know this is a sponsored product review but I can honestly say that I  loved everything about Woodies ‘ Little Garden Angels‘ range. The products are lovely funky colours, they are practical and creative, but more important my children LOVED them. I think this would make a BRILLIANT birthday gift  and something from range would be a fantastic alternative to Easter Eggs.  The pricing also makes them  very attractive with prices starting at €1.99 for the little trowels and €8.99 for the sets.( See here for a list of products and prices).

Thank you so much to Woodies for the opportunity to use their products, and also because they have inspired a new section for our blog ‘Gardening with Children‘.  Now a progress report – our watercress plants!!  also the carrots have started growing -making two children very happy.

I think its a good idea to plant watercress, it grows so fast and children want instant results (well mine do!!) and watercress only takes a few days to grow. So m-m-m who’s going to water the plants and take care of them ???? – well that would be ME of course!!!