A budding entrepreneur has started his own successful stall selling leftover seedlings from his garden - at just five-years-old. <br /><br />George Stafford has been gardening with his mum Nicole, 37, since he was just one-year-old when the coronavirus lockdown inspired them to "grow what they eat".<br /><br />The youngster's passion for gardening has only increased year on year and now George, from St Osyth, Essex, has decided to sell his leftover seedlings and plants.<br /><br />Inspired by the popular cartoon Bluey, George sold out of all his stock at the stall he manned all by himself including cucumbers, lettuce and broccoli.<br /><br />He made a grand total of £41 by selling the seedlings for prices set between 50p and £1 last weekend (April 13).<br /><br />Mum Nicole, a jewellery maker, said: "It is lovely for a five-year-old to be excited about plants and getting dirty.<br /><br />"I no longer have a kitchen - it has become a greenhouse. <br /><br />"George knows exactly what he's doing. He takes himself off in the morning and waters everything, and he can't wait to come home from school and check the seeds.<br /><br />"He does it all by putting the soil in pots, making a hole for the seeds with a pencil, and then covering the seeds over. He cuts the fruit when its ready. <br /><br />"Most children these days like sitting on their Xboxes and iPads but now this has become a passion for me to keep him interested."<br /><br />Nicole had already been helping George, who loves strawberries, by selling some of his seedlings to her friends.<br /><br />However, he decided he wanted his own stall inspired by his favourite TV show.<br /><br />The mum-of-three said: "He is a big fan of Bluey where they have stalls out the front of their house. <br /><br />"We live on a quiet road so no one would see him if he wanted to go out there and try and sell. <br /><br />"I posted on our local Facebook group and dozens of people came from the village. He sold out."<br /><br />Nicole said George has managed to germinate 20 watermelon seeds as his next project and that he understands they are difficult to grow in a UK climate. <br /><br />She believes his passion for gardening comes from watching the farmers near his house with sisters Megan, 14, and Phoebe, 12. <br /><br />Nicole said: "We're lucky with where we live as there is farmland and fields behind us. <br /><br />"George wants to be a farmer and during lockdown he would watch them carrying on working when the rest of the world wasn't. <br /><br />"He loves the freedom of getting messy with a purpose and being outside in an open space."<br /><br />George said that selling the plants makes him feel "good and very happy" and that "next year it's going to be bigger and better".
