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| Gardening With Kids |
| Here are the DIY Basics on gardening with kids. |
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Teach your kids how to garden by giving them their own small plot that they can nurture and observe (figure A). - Make a sign for the garden with your child's name (figure B).
- Let her pick what she wants to grow. Steer her towards quick growing plants like lettuce and cucumbers.
- Include bright flowers at child height like zinnias and cosmos.
- Kids are amazed by towering sunflowers. Plant them in a semi-circle for the feeling of a flower playhouse.
- To hold her interest until the seeds sprout, plant a few existing plants in containers (figure C).
- Mark each plant with the tag or seed packet (figure D).
- Be sure to teach your child to avoid poison ivy. When you're finished, wash with a poison ivy removal scrub in case one of you came in contact with the plant's toxin (figure E).
By letting kids have control of their own garden, you'll be surprised at how much they'll grow! Web Extra: - When gardening with younger kids, use big seeds. They can easily handle sunflowers, nasturtiums, beans, beets, melons, cucumbers, corn and squash.
- Kids will enjoy watching these easy-to-grow annuals: cosmos, sunflower, nigella, marigold, zinnia, aster, cockscomb, nasturtium and sweet alyssum.
- Kids enjoy plants that appeal to the senses. Lamb's ear is soft to the touch.
- After a good rain, show kids how earthworms help replenish the soil.
- Have kids work on a garden journal; drawing pictures and making notes about the plants and the insects they see.
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