‘When the apocalypse comes, I like to think my kids could trade their tomatoes for medicine’

Gardening with children is fun but don’t believe all you see on social media, says Esther N McCarthy.

If social media is to be believed, parenting during lockdown was a slow-mo montage of apron-clad mothers throwing their head back in delight as a pigtailed angel with a smidge of flour on her nose put the finishing touches on their third banana bread batch.