AD | Back to the Garden with Sudocrem (+ giveaway)
It’s spring, and that means one thing in our house: our windowsills are rammed with little pots ready to grow our seeds! This is something that I started with the Bear when she was only a few years old so that she would understand where food comes from. Since then it has become a tradition in our home to grow a few things every year.
The great news is that you don’t need a lot of space. For us we have a few planters in the back garden which we fill each year but if all you have is a window then that is enough. It’s amazing how captivated little ones will be with nothing more than growing cress in some eggshells.
It’s something that can so easily be built into home-schooling too. Plant a sunflower and ask them to keep a weekly picture as it grows. This simple activity not only gets them away from screens as they spend a little time with nature, but they’ll be learning as they do it. Each week they can measure their sunflower, draw a picture of what it looks like and write a short sentence for and boom, you have maths, art and literacy covered in one activity (that deserves a quiet cup of tea right??)
THE BACK TO THE GARDEN CAMPAIGN
That’s exactly what Sudocrem are trying to achieve as they believe that creating a window box full of edible herbs can be just as inspiring as digging a vegetable patch, and we agree!
The Sudocrem team are partnering with gardeners and garden centres all over the nation, Sudocrem’s to encourage us all to start our own gardening projects in our windows or gardens. Packed full of tips, advice and knowledge as to how to keep our plants healthy, Sudocrem will also be donating one hundred growing kits to families all over the UK to kick start their growing projects.
“Right now, there are around 5 million children under the age of 10 who need activities to get them through the next few months,” says Alice Bamford, Sudocrem brand manager. “At Sudocrem, we want to give families a hand as best we can.”
What to get your hands on a kit? Well, I have THREE to give away!
THE GIVEAWAY
The Sudocrem are giving away THREE Back to the Garden kits worth £40 each to lucky Tippytupps readers. You can choose from an indoor or outdoor kit. Just enter via Rafflecopter using the link below and follow the usual social media accounts.
This giveaway is open to UK residents only and is powered by Rafflecopter. It will close on Sunday 17th May 2020 at midnight. The winner will be chosen at random using the tool. Please note this competition is hosted by the Tippytupps blog but the prize is being provided by the Sudocrem team who will be responsible for posting your prize out to you. For full terms and conditions for the giveaway, please visit the Tippytupps terms and conditions page.
That’s not all though as there is a larger national giveaway going on too. To be in with a chance of winning £100 of garden centre vouchers, upload a photo of your garden and tag @Sudocrem, #BackToTheGarden & #SudocremBTTGcomp on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to enter. You can find their Terms and Conditions here.
Good luck!
DISCLOSURE: this is a collaborative post working with Sudocrem to promote their Back to the Garden campaign. I chose to get involved because this is something that is important to me and my family.
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No . . . Don’t think they were around when I was a child.
Mathlink tubes was after my school days I’m afraid.
Never heard of those I’m afraid…i was at school in the 80’s-90’s so perhaps I’m too old?
Yes I do! I used to have them in infant school. I always got so excited when the trolley full of Mathlink cubes got bought out 🙂
I actually just had to google them as I didn’t recognise the name after seeing a picture of them I do remember them but can’t remember what we done with them haha!
Yes I do remember Mathlink cubes !
I’m afraid not I’m too old
I like to grow veg, as you can eat all your hard work! For flowers, I do like to grow Foxgloves to bring some really bright colour to the garden.
Never heard of them?
Vegetables for the garden!
Roses
We love sunflowers and seeing how high they will grow
Rhubarb
Like growing flowers from seeds, amazing 1
I most enjoy growing flowers and shrubs that attract bees and butterflies.
Sunflowers, big. bright, beautiful
I like growing parsley
I love to grow radishes and chillis
Bee & Butterfly friendly flowers and shrubs x
we grow cress and herbs on the windowsil
Our favourite things to grow are forget-me-nots and hydrangers
tomatoes for us
Flowers and see them grow
We love growing small tomatoes, potatoes and sweetcorn!
Tomatoes and peas.
Roses
courgettes and khol rabi, the latter you cannot find in many shops
roses,herbs and lavender!
I love growing sunflowers. To see something grow from a small seed to a huge towering plant is just amazing.
I like to grow herbs in pots, and this year I am turning a dry, sunny bed at the front of the house into a place to grow succulents.
I love growing sunflowers, tomatoes, potatoes, herbs and garden peas.
tomatoes! x
bluebells,daffs and grannys bonnets because they are easy and they come back year after year
We enjoy growing sunflowers and seeing who can grow the tallest one!
Tomatoes. Homegrown tomatoes straight from the greenhouse are the best!
Strawberries we love them
we love to grow Roses
We enjoy growing courgettes and strawberries because they are easy to grow. Having said that, the frost has just killed our courgettes and beans 🙁
I love my flowers particularly fuschia & petunias but I enjoy growing courgettes, onions & tomatoes.
radish
Peas and tomatoes
potatoes and tomatoes
Strawberries and raspberries. They are never that great from a shop.
I love growing roses
I like to grow chillies and coriander – they’re so useful for recipes
Sunflowers
I love growing vegetables…and eating them
Runner beans and herbs!
I like to grow peas. One of the few things I don’t kill!
Butterfly and bee-friendly flowers
Dahlias
Would like to grow some vegetables.
I like growing seasonal flowers and watching them grow over the weeks.
I love growing flowers but not very good at it so tend to stick to rose plants as they are usually successful
Its got to be Sunflowers, my children love how tall they get 🙂
I love growing our own carrots – we all enjoy them, and they’re easy to grow and delicious to eat!
We love growing strawberries so that we can eat them after they’re picked.
It has to be tomatoes and strawberries too.
I can just about manage cress.
I love growing runner beans because it is amazing how fast they grow and how they climb up the poles!
We love growing strawberries & carrots!
We used to grow radishes and cornflowers, an unlikely combination
we like growing strawberries
We love to grow any veg and the kids love the Sunflower seeds planted
I love growing Courgettes, they are so easy
Herbs at the moment
Vegetables
My homegrown tomatoes taste delicious.
Runner beans so tasty when they are fresh.
My favourite things to grow are always fruits or veggies! I’m loving growing spaghetti squash and chillis at the moment!
I grow lots fruit and vegetables and annual flowers I think my favourite is my homegrown strawberries
Tomatoes and strawberries we love growing in the garden
Tomatoes, cucumber, courgette, runner beans, lilies, daffodils, tulips
For my son it’s the strawberries but for me it’s my herb garden
Bright flowers like sunflowers
I’m not a gardener in any shape or form but my 4 year old daughter absolutely loves it so I have been trying to plant things in the garden with her on lockdown. My favourite flowers to plant are sunflowers. My 4 year old is fascinated with how tall they get, plus she loves yellow flowers.
Like growing vegetables
We love growing new potatoes and tomatoes they taste so good home grown and we love growing lots of bedding plants too
I love to grow things I can eat. I’m currently growing chilli plants!
Tomatoes are a family favourite for salads and I usually make tomato chutney for the family too
Strawberries, tomatoes and mixed lettuces are great for our table.