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Our first harvest of broad beans with plenty more to come… but what do I do with them??

Child friendly, no nut, easy recipe suggestions anyone??

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We sowed our first round of spring seeds a few weeks back. They are mostly flowers and herbs, and one or two veggies. The lupins began sprouting within a week, followed by the borage and dill, the parsley and, just recently the leeks.

There is still nothing from the cone flowers, the bergamont or the luffas and only one tiny sprout from the lemon balm. It was the same last year – I couldn’t get any of these seeds to grow.

So here’s my burning question…

Is there a trick to growing cone flowers, bergamont, lemon balm and luffa from seed???

Help me oh green thumbed gardener people!

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I have three kids (in case you didn’t know!). Twin girls (who are almost six), and a two year old boy. The girls share a bedroom. The boy still sleeps with us, and because there isn’t any more bedrooms some of his things are in our room, and some in the girl’s room.

The girls are pretty good at sharing and including their brother most of the time, but sometimes they like to go to their room and shut the door. Leaving their little brother screaming, broken hearted, in the hallway. That’s been happening a lot lately.

So here’s the burning question…

Do you let your kids shut their siblings out of their rooms?

What if it is a shared space?

Are kids entitled to their own space? To say they don’t want to be around someone for a while?

How do we teach our kids to ‘not share their space’ with kindness and compassion? And how do you deal with the one who is locked out?

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