Starting A Garden For Kids

This is a fun and inspiring guide for beginners to gardening.

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. To add interest and color to the vegetable garden you might want to add some flowers and herbs. Start with a small garden. Planting flowers was a pastime when i was a child and i especially like the idea of a plant journal.

Decide between tilling and creating a raised bed. Gardening with kids allows for the garden to become a very creative place. Each year i add a combination of different types of organic matter including compost worm castings and mulch. Contact your local cooperative extension service.

May 1 2017 at 1 49 pm. If you re a beginner start small. A local gardening center can help. So i always try to spend my free time on starting out gardening projects for our kids.

Kids love color and gardens can be a very colorful place. 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. 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. Healthy vibrant soil healthy vibrant plants with built in disease and pest resistance and more nutrition.

You ll get a feeling for how much time. Rainbow gardens are a fun theme for children to participate in.