mini green fingers

26/10/2025

Only five days left until we close the doors of mini green fingers for good. This is your last chance to grab some amazing bargains with massive sales across all our products!
Don't miss out on these final discounts.

25/10/2025

There are only six days left until we close the doors of mini green fingers for good. This is your last chance to grab some amazing bargains with massive sales across all our products!
Don't miss out on these final discounts.

06/10/2025

We have come to the end of our journey!
Seven years ago, I embarked on an amazing journey: mini green fingers. Born out of a passion for getting children into gardening and equipping parents with the right tools for their children's gardening adventures, I created this little online business.

Thank you for those that have supported me and mini green fingers 💚

Like most businesses, there has been many ups and downs but I have made the decision to move into a different direction and therefore close the doors of mini green fingers. The decision has been driven by a number of factors and reflect the challenges small independent online businesses face.

I am having a closing down sale with discounts up to 50% on remaining stock. Over the next few weeks, I will also be adding a lot more stock under the 'Imperfect Products' (items that are perfectly functional but might have a small visual imperfection) page, so if you are after a bargain make sure you check out the mini green fingers website.

The mini green fingers online shop will close on Friday 31st of October 2025.

05/05/2023

If you are looking for something to sow this weekend with your mini gardener and you are keen to try to follow with the phases of the Moon, from today (Full Moon) until the 12th (Last Quarter) it is time to focus on crops that develop underground such as root vegetables and bulbs.

So great seeds for children to sow over the week are carrots, beetroots and radishes. These can now all be sown directly outside and can be grown both in a vegetable garden/allotment or in pots. Only caution is for the carrots, make sure to use netting over them to avoid them being affected by carrot flies.

Also, don't forget that you don't need to wait until the beetroots and radishes are fully grown to enjoy your crop, you can pick their young leaves and add them to salads (or cooked in the case of hairy radishes leaves), they are super yummy and very pretty too!

And if your mini gardener prefers flowers over veggies, this week is perfect for planting dahlias (tubers) and gladioli (corms/bulbs). This offers a lovely opportunity to talk about what tubers and bulbs are vs seeds.

Happy gardening!

22/04/2023

Happy Earth Day 💚!
There are many ways for children to learn about how best to care for our planet and they do not necessarily require much preparation.
Here are my 3 suggestions if you are looking for some inspiration on activities that you can do with your mini gardener today to celebrate Earth Day 2023.
They are not gardening activities but focus on taking time out of our busy schedules to appreciate how amazing and beautiful our planet is and what we can do to show our love for our one and only Earth.

20/04/2023

Having grown up in Italy I might be biased but I think that one of the easiest meals for children to learn to make is tomato pasta. It is also a great way to showcase the link between what they can grow and what they eat. Tomatoes were some of the first plants I ever grew with the girls (after cress 😋) and they are usually quite successful with minimal effort.

Tomorrow's new moon marks the start of a period that is good for upward plant growth and your last chance to start sowing tomatoes from seed. So if you haven't yet got your tomato seeds in yet, check out the Piccolo Tomato Sauce Seed Collection on our website. It contains seeds for mini San Marzano tomatoes, a variety that is probably the most common one for making tomato sauce in Italy due to their meaty/firm flesh and natural sweetness.

On top of that all the Piccolo seeds are of certified standard, non-GMO and non-hybrid. So, if you keep the seeds from the tomatoes that you grow, you can sow them next year!

Tomato pasta anyone??

11/04/2023

It is amazing to be able to share a few words of wisdom from my own gardening journey and the experience acquired with mini green fingers 💚 and getting this amazing magazine to share it with their social media followers!

Happy Saturday,

How's your garden looking?

Ours is very wild, which is how I love it. There's plenty of nettles and the elder's just come into bud.

Sometimes a garden can feel like a mammoth project, especially if you've little kids too.

We asked Gigi Møller, mum of two and founder of for some ideas to inspire and help us.

"Here are my 3 suggestions to get started gardening with kids," she says.

🌿START SMALL:
"Start with small easy educational projects that allow your child to understand how a seed or bulb turns into a plant. You can do this by growing them outside of the soil e.g., on a piece of wet paper cloth inside a closed container. You can even try to get the seeds directly from what you are eating (organic peppers, tomatoes, pumpkins and dried peas all work really well for this) so that the link between plants and food is established at an early stage.

🌿TAKE THEIR LEAD:
As my kids grow older, I have found that it is important to give them more independence to keep them engaged and interested. Giving them responsibility for their own part of the garden or balcony or letting them decide what is grown based on what they like to see, eat and touch, can really help with this. Once the plans are in place, having a simple list of jobs for them to do can empower them and give them even more independence.

🌿LEARN TOGETHER:
Be prepared for things to go wrong! Some seeds won’t sprout, small delicate plants will sometimes snap when handled by children (or adults, oops!!), you might put things out too early or water them too much/too little. This is all normal. These experiences give you and your mini gardener opportunities to grow your gardening knowledge together."

Discover more on gardening with kids in our latest edition, out now.

Just click the link in our bio - .

Love from Melissa

08/03/2023

On International Women's Day I thought it would be fitting to introduce myself and thank all those amazing ladies that have helped me along the way.
My name is Gigi and I am the owner of mini green fingers as well as a mum to two wonderful girls. Just over 4 years ago I started mini green fingers as I wanted to offer parents, grandparents and adults in general an easy option for buying good quality and fun children's gardening products. I wanted to create a place where children were the centre of the conversation and where people could find many options to support their kids gardening journey, no matter what age the kids were or what budget they had.
It was also an opportunity for me to create the work/life balance that was best for my family and for my mental health. Even if some days have been tough and the journey has often felt lonely, I am blessed to have had the support of many other women as customers, suppliers and advisors/inspiration. Some of these women have been going through similar journeys and some with completely different ones.
I am a huge fan of female entrepreneurs and I will always try to support female-led businesses by stocking their products, liking their posts (even if social media is not my forte!) and supporting their efforts!
So here is a shout out to some of the amazing female-led businesses that I have been lucky enough to meet, work with or being inspired by. I wouldn't be here without you and I am looking forward to learning from you again in the future!
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03/03/2023

If you are looking to do some sowing this weekend with your mini gardener, this is a great time to start many summer cropping plants. Until the 7th of March, the moon is going from 'First Quarter' to 'Full', which means (for those that use moon phases to garden) that it is the ideal period for sowing crops that develop above ground.
Here are a few things that are easy to grow with kids and can be sown this weekend!
- Peppers, tomatoes and cucumbers can all be sown now indoors for a lovely summer crop!
- Hardy annual flower seeds like poppies, cornflowers, sunflowers and stocks can be sown outdoors in a sunny spot. Same applies to sweet peas and wildflowers. Have you tried sowing a patch of edible flowers? They make fab decorations for cupcakes and cakes as well as add extra colour to salads and other savoury dishes.
- Half-hardy annual seeds, such as cosmos, can be sown indoors now. Cosmos are quite easy for children to grow, they produce tons of bright flowers that can be used for fun garden potions once they are past their best. And if deadheaded regularly (great job for little hands with kid-safe scissors), they will keep producing flowers well into the end of summer/beginning of autumn.

So what are you going to sow with your mini gardener this weekend??

01/03/2023

It is the 1st of March and the start of meteorological Spring. We'll have to wait until the Spring Equinox (20th March 2023) for the astronomical one to start!

No matter what type of Spring you like to follow, there are so many signs that nature is slowly waking up. I can't help being in awe of all the beautiful and strong flowers that have started appearing. Snowdrops, crocuses, primroses and daffodils are making any outdoor walk extra special.

This is the perfect time for children to become familiar with spring flowers and the Little Robin Spring Flowers Flashcards are a great way to help them through play. You can bring them along with you on a walk or even just play at home during a rainy day. Why not head to our website to learn more about them.

27/02/2023

Gardening with a helmet is not what I would call 'traditional', but it was a logical choice for my little girl yesterday when she was alternating between scooting and helping me tidy up the front garden!

I have to confess that it has been hard to get the girls to embrace gardening during these winter months. The shorter days mean that by the time we all get home from school and afterschool activities it has been dark. On top of that weekends just seem to fly by busy with sports activities, homework and life in general.

So being outside sprucing up the front of our house in the company of my little (probably no longer so little!) girl was great for the soul even if I had to share 'the stage' with her scooter!!

From my experience, gardening with children doesn't mean that they have to be gardening all the time. They will have ups and downs and times when they love it as well as times when they just don't want to even see the sight of a trowel. I think that it is more about equipping them with the knowledge and ability to care for plants, supporting our wildlife and being confident if and when they decide to do gardening. What do you think?

27/01/2023

The weekend is nearly here and it looks like the weather is a little milder than what we have experienced lately...time to get back in the garden (with the help of a lovely hot chocolate 😋!).

If your mini gardener is keen to try using the phases of the moon when gardening, this weekend is the perfect time to start sowing seeds that required upward growth such as chillies, aubergines, peas and sweet peas.

Happy 🌙 gardening everyone!!!