Alas, I'm just not great at gardening.

It's not that I don't like a fragrant garden of blooms and vegetables, I just some how can't do it. Each year I look at our square garden spilling over with climbing frames and plastic tea sets and I think 'This year I'll do it...'.

As I started to feel guilty that the kids were missing out on the wonderful joys of gardening that I have yet to discover, I took them to talk to a local gentleman who has been gardening his allotment practically since the dawn of  time. The kids were mesemerised as he talked of giant marrows and beans growing to the sky. I asked him, nonchanently, what his secret was (hoping for the key to my gardening va va voom) The answer from this gardening master?

"Water, wait, prune and water some more. Then just wait and trust."

It got me thinking...homeschooling is much the same.  Sure it involves the active business of teaching, traing and pruning. But it also involves waiting and trusting. Giving our kids the space to root in the well nourished ground, giving them opportunity to reach for the sun themselves...

Maybe this blossoming thing is for me after all!

Jane