Starting A Garden For Kids

Start with a small garden.

Starting a garden for kids.

Once you start a garden you ll gain a new appreciation for healthy soil as it improves year after year. Kids also enjoy plants that offer unique shapes such as eggplant or gourds after harvesting gourds can be decorated and used as birdhouses you can even turn them into canteens or maracas. You ll get a feeling for how much time. Rainbow gardens are a fun theme for children to participate in.

It s better to be thrilled by what you produce in a small garden than be frustrated by the time commitment a big one requires. Gardening with kids allows for the garden to become a very creative place. This is a fun and inspiring guide for beginners to gardening. Kids love color and gardens can be a very colorful place.

May 1 2017 at 1 49 pm. So i always try to spend my free time on starting out gardening projects for our kids. To add interest and color to the vegetable garden you might want to add some flowers and herbs. Plus it makes sense to learn gardening basics before investing tons of time and money in this new hobby.

Plants that represent the colors of the rainbow red orange yellow green blue violet and indigo are great teaching tools that are exciting for. Contact your local cooperative extension service. Planting flowers was a pastime when i was a child and i especially like the idea of a plant journal. Each year i add a combination of different types of organic matter including compost worm castings and mulch.

Decide between tilling and creating a raised bed. If you don t want to till and nourish the soil you ve got or if you have a bad back and would rather not be bending down so low to garden you can build a raised planting bed with non pressure treated wood.