Say hello and/or introduce yourself.

[steve]

Hello Emma and welcome to the forums

[caretaker]

Hello Emma and welcome, my advise would be sit down with the children and draw a plan of what size and what everyone would like to grow.
my wife is one of eight children now I have loads of in-laws.
Good luck with your new adventure and house.
Reg

[Cherry]

Welcome Emma. How lovely to have a house and new garden to work on. I like caretaker's advice. You won't have a lot of spare time, so keep it simple. I would do a sitting out and barbeque area first.

[lesley]

Welcome Emma and good luck with your new house and garden

[Tel]

Welcome Emma, a blank canvass. involve the children they are more likely to help in the garden then.

[Moonlight]

Hiya Emma,

Lovely to meet you. Looking forward to hearing about all of your family gardening fun. I've got to 2 children can't imagine life with such a big family. Major respect.

Moonlight

[Cherry]

Hey emma1412, that is my birthday too.

[emma1412]

Thats cool. Hi my name is Emma and im very very new to gardening so im still founding out what i need and tht at the moment. But i do know now i want a herbs fruit and veg so do my kids

[piskie]

Hi emma, welcome

Major respect for 'running' eight children and a household!

[Rosie]

Hi Emma and welcome to our madhouse, oops sorry, forum I bet your kids will love their own wee patch in the garden

[ladybird]

Hi Emma ,welcome to the forum I look forward to hear how you are getting on during the year . what ages are the kids ? I expect they will all want different things. Very young kids get overwelmed if they have too much responsibility so perhaps one of the older kids could partner up with a younger one to look after something . young kids want "instant results" and too see what they are growing so lettuce peas and beans are good so they can "see" them growing above ground. radish are quite good for quick results but they don`t taste so good .

I allowed some of the kids in our street to grow some veg in my garden a few years ago , even the 11year olds were inpatient to pull the carrots . It was amazing to see the look on their faces when thsy actually did pull them up.

strawberries and raspberries are great for kids to grow . you could buy a few plants to start with ( I like to grow strawberries in window boxes keeps the slugs off ) then make more evey year from runners and cuttings. I`m sure the kids would also love to help with the strawberry pavalova or raspberry flan

[KC]

Hi, I have just registered to this site hoping to learn a lot about gardening. I am a complete beginner and decided to give gardening ago as I love a challenge and wanted to utilise our concrete back yard so I'm a container gardener by circumstance. I grow flowers at the front of the house and fruit and veg at the back. I prefer to have flowers in bloom all year round and don't particularly like annuals, however my exception are cosmos. Any help would be very welcomed.

[steve]

Hello KC and welcome to the forums, there are some good plants nowadays for containers including patio fruit trees

[daitheplant]

Good evening kc and welcome to the site.

[Cherry]

Welcome to the forums KC. I hope you get lots of ideas. Bess grows in containers and seems to grow plants which are not just annuals, so she may have some tips.