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May
How To Grow A Good Gardener ( Kid’s Gardening )
You are never too old to stop gardening or to young to start. One easy and fun way to watch your kids while you garden is to let them garden too. Gardening for kids can be a wonderful experience, and sometimes little hands can be a big help. Children enjoy watching something that they have planted and tended grow.
With the vast array of gardening tools available just for kids, why not take a section of your garden or make a small 3’x3’ space ( just big enough ) and give your child their own garden to plant.
Depending on what he/she likes and wants to plant vegetables or flowers, start with seeds or bulbs and let them watch as their plants develop and grow into something very different from what they planted.
A small 3’x3’ garden will probably work best for a child since it won’t require any digging or soil amendments. If you haven’t dug out an area simply put down heavy plastic or newspapers (to help keep out weeds), wet it down, then fill the bed with new soil.
Buy organic soil that is rich and black and if you need to add a little peat moss or compost to it, stay away from soils that have chemical fertilizers or pesticides added to them.
When it’s decided whether to plant pretty flowers or their favorite vegetables, let them decide, they will be more apt to take care of their garden, and then you are ready to begin.
Start with seeds, being sure to soak them at least ½ hour before planting, if your child has decided on flowers, help them choose flowers that will be easy to grow such as Sunflowers, Marigolds, Petunias, Zinnias or Nasturtiums all of which grow very well from seed and of course seedling from your local garden center that are ready to plant is much easier and already look pretty.
Remember to check the labels for planting instructions as for full sun, shade, or partial sun. Teach them how to spread mulch and water properly and if they enjoy summer gardening, getting them to plant bulbs in the fall for a nice spring garden should be easy. If they enjoy it buy a few tulips, daffodils, snowdrops or crocuses bulbs for a bright spring garden after a cold winter.
Remember a Good Start when they are Planted Young will Grow You a GOOD GARDENER
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This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 at 4:14 pm and is filed under Basic Garden Tool Tips, Basic Gardening Advice, Garden Tool Links, Garden Tools for All Ages, Ms. Eudora's Garden Weekly. Follow the comments through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can post a comment, or leave a trackback.
June 26th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
Really an interesting article. It’s a nice idea. Surely this will help the kids to know the importance of plants for our environment.
July 7th, 2008 at 11:01 am
Kids tools! I have Perfect Garden Tool System tools. I have all four handles including the one for kids. All the different tools heads attach to the handles - even the kids handle!