Fairies in the Vegetable box

Finally a few nice days of weather and the spring has arrived. So me and Scarlett decided to make a vegetable box to grow our own.

We went to the garden centre a few weeks back and Scarlett choose what vegetables she'd like to grow. We came away with carrots, peas, pumpkins, courgettes, parsley and sunflowers. We potted them around the house in loo rolls we'd been saving up and once they were ready to go out we made our vegetable box.

Using a few left over planks from decking I made a very simple 1m x 1m box. We made bunting to decorate and an old bucket to store some tools in.

Scarlett's Veg Box

We filled it with compost and made a few mud pies along the way. Then we put in our plants. Unfortunately a week later we had an odd hard frost and it killed off most of the tender plants. Thankfully we kept some plug plants in the house and I sneaked back out into the garden and replaced the dead plants without Scarlett realising.

Now the peas are starting to grow we made a fairy house / pea wigwam to grow the peas up. Using a few bamboo canes we tied them together and I left Scarlett with a few lolly sticks, feathers, stickers and glitter glue to go to town on them.

This is what she came up with.

Fairy Pea Wigwam

Looking forward to picking plenty of fresh veg in the weeks to come.