Iona loves to help me in the garden but gets bored after half an hour and disappears off onto her trampoline. The only time she seems really interested for any length of time is when she is planting seeds or onion sets of her own, or when we are making a measuring board for her sunflowers (a length of 4" x 2") which she paints and I mark every six inches. Then she checks it regularly. But having said all that, she spends about two hours minimum every day playing in the garden (weather permitting - even sometimes weather not permitting
), and she can name most of the flowers, shrubs and veggies so I must be doing something right, but not exactly sure what.