Today is Pancake Day! Also called Fat Tuesday or Shrove Tuesday if you take part in Lent. It’s traditionally a day to eat up all sorts of yummy things in your house that you are promising not to eat during Lent, like chocolate. It’s a long month if you’re giving up your junkiest habit so first of all you need to eat a shed-load of pancakes.
It’s strange people MAKE and EAT pancakes only one day a year.
HOW ODD?! Why only eat such a great food one day out of 365? We must change this silliness once and for all.
But how? …Time for a Seed Agent Mission.
WHAT IF?! We rename pancakes Flippers! Every time we make a pancake we call it a Flipper. Everytime we eat a pancake we call it Flipper. Everytime we see a pancake we call it a Flipper. Soon the world will call pancakes – Flippers!! And then we can eat Flippers ALL year round, and not just on Fat Tuesday.
There’s nothing that can’t be used to fill a flipper, sweet or savoury, hot or cold, the choice is yours Seed Agents! Try some veg-flippers! “Move along old-school lemon and sugar”, “Bye-bye gooey joys of chocolate”, “Hello pongy cheese, spinach and mushrooms!”
Have a go at making your own flippers here and experiment eating them with different fillings. Discover which one you like best!
We’re all familiar with the benefits of eating a healthy diet, but it seems the importance of eating seasonably is less well-known. Those who already grow their own will agree when I say that fruit and veg are at their best when freshly picked. But there’s more to eating seasonably than this.
For a helping hand click on the images below to see when different fruit and veg are in season:
Autumn
Winter (coming soon)
Spring (coming soon)
Summer (coming soon)
Secret Seed Society, child-friendly recipes and tips for growing and cooking with kids for a healthier, happier future.
Are garden beasties eating your freshly grown veg before you can?
Here are our top tips to help you identify pests and protect plants with environmentally friendly and economical ammunition.
If you spend your time sowing, watering and looking after plants we think it’s only fair that you get to eat some of the garden too.
Creepy crawlies are important to keeping your garden healthy so before you point a finger of blame at every creepy crawly in your garden check out our guide.
Some creatures are very popular with gardeners, like worms and bees, while slugs and caterpillars are the least popular. But, without caterpillars there would be no beautiful butterflies and without slugs hedgehogs would be hungry. Here’s some tips on how to play your part in creating a balanced ecosystem and preventing the bugs from eating ALL your food. Here’s how?
Each crop has its own enemy. So Seed Agents here is your mission:
Click on the images below for tips of how best to protect your veg patch!
Protect your Plants
Confuse your Pests
Pick Off Pests
Other Ammunition
Let us know how you got on by sending in a photo of your Secret Seed Agent work in action!
Send it either by e-mail to: fun[at]secretseedsociety.com or by post to: Green House, 26a Boat Horse Lane, Crick, Northampton NN6 7TH.
Are your veg leaves looking like lace?
It’s not only humans who love fresh tasty veg, they are enjoyed by lots of other creatures.
It is very important that we create a healthy and varied eco-system in our gardens but also I think it’s only right that if we sow, water and generally look after what we are growing we should be able to enjoy eating it.
So, what should we be looking out for?
Some creatures are very helpful for example worms and bees, but some are not so like slugs, caterpillars and fleabeetles. We all love hedgey and he depends on having some juicy slugs to gulp down. Similarly we love the butterflies that come from caterpillars so we need to be careful. We don’t want to kill them all we just need to prevent them eating our food but how?
Each crop has its own enemy. So Seed Agents here is your mission:
Click on the images below for tips of how best to protect your veg patch!
Protect your Plants
Confuse your Pests
Pick Off Pests
Other Ammunition
Let us know how you got on by sending in a photo of your Secret Seed Agent work in action!
Send it either by e-mail to: fun[at]secretseedsociety.com or by post to: Green House, 26a Boat Horse Lane, Crick, Northampton NN6 7TH.
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