Kitchen Garden

LITTLE GREEN FINGERS

GARDENING WITH KIDS GET GROWING

Before having children, it's easy to have strong ideas about what sort of parent you'd be. I had visions of us sitting around the kitchen table night after night, eating a succession of exciting veg-based concoctions, all grown organically on our plot.

The reality, of course, has been somewhat different. I have no complaints on the growing front. If anything, the quality of our produce keeps improving year-on-year. My wife and I even manage to find the time to dream up a novel dish or two – I feel proud that despite the usual glut of courgettes, we're STILL not sick of them. Our son'seating habits, however, have fallen a

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