Starting A Garden For Kids

To add interest and color to the vegetable garden you might want to add some flowers and herbs.

Starting a garden for kids.

Healthy vibrant soil healthy vibrant plants with built in disease and pest resistance and more nutrition. Once you start a garden you ll gain a new appreciation for healthy soil as it improves year after year. May 1 2017 at 1 49 pm. Planting flowers was a pastime when i was a child and i especially like the idea of a plant journal.

Contact your local cooperative extension service. Rainbow gardens are a fun theme for children to participate in. Each year i add a combination of different types of organic matter including compost worm castings and mulch. If you re a beginner start small.

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. Plus it makes sense to learn gardening basics before investing tons of time and money in this new hobby. Decide between tilling and creating a raised bed. 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.

Start with a small garden. This is a fun and inspiring guide for beginners to gardening. A local gardening center can help. Kids love color and gardens can be a very colorful place.

Gardening with kids allows for the garden to become a very creative 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.