Q How should I start gardening with my nursery children?
Beverley Dale, by email
ACHRISTINE SAYS What a great situation to be in. Containers are ideal for little ones as they can have one each. Make sure they are clean and have drainage holes. Use good-quality compost, not garden soil. Try plants that grow rapidly, such as salad leaves, radishes, spring onions or peas to harvest as pea shoots. Move onto species that take a bit longer to grow such as the sensitive plant, Mimosa pudica. Children can blow on the leaves and see them fold up. Avoid touching as the plants are a little prickly. Sow seed at 13°C in the spring. Grow herbs – especially different varieties of mint – great to crush in their small hands and smell, let alone to eat.