Gardening Games & Ideas
By Rosemary Davies
When it is cold and muddy out in your garden there is not much to do.
How about rugging up and going on a journey around the garden and your local neighborhood to see how many different seeds you can find.
You will be amazed at just how many different shapes and colors you will find, some in huge pods other in tiny pod-like cups filled with seeds like fine dust.
Have a competition with your friends to see who has the greatest number of different types.
How many have a fin or paddle shape on them that might help them blow in the wind to a nice spot of soil?
How many have hooks, thorns or barbs so they will stick on your socks or clothing or onto animal fur to be carried to their final destination?
Which ones seem to float easily to journey downstream or across the waves to somewhere nice to grow?
WHAT TO DO
1.Sort them out into groups into separate jars with the date and where you found them.
2.Many of them could be sown into a potting mix or into good soil in your garden in early spring and what a bed of surprises you could have!
3.When they grow you may be able to trade them off with neighbors interested in gardening.
#ANOTHER IDEA
Use the seeds for decoration.
You will need:-
PVA glue
cardboard, old jam tins or small boxes,
paints, cottonwool etc.
1. Using PVA or craft glue that dries clear, glue seed pods onto cardboard to make interesting designs on cards.
2.Make on old tin or cardboard box into a decorative pencil tin for your desk or secret treasure chest with different pods glued all over the top.
3.Large pods could be painted with faces and given eyes and a blob of cottonwool or wool to make gumnut/ pod people.
4.Send us a photo of the results we would love to see it
