Starting A Garden For Kids

Decide between tilling and creating a raised bed.

Starting a garden for kids.

You ll get a feeling for how much time. Gardening with kids allows for the garden to become a very creative place. Plants that represent the colors of the rainbow red orange yellow green blue violet and indigo are great teaching tools that are exciting for. Each year i add a combination of different types of organic matter including compost worm castings and mulch.

Start with a small garden. Once you start a garden you ll gain a new appreciation for healthy soil as it improves year after year. Plus it makes sense to learn gardening basics before investing tons of time and money in this new hobby. Kids love color and gardens can be a very colorful place.

Contact your local cooperative extension service. This is a fun and inspiring guide for beginners to gardening. To add interest and color to the vegetable garden you might want to add some flowers and herbs. Rainbow gardens are a fun theme for children to participate in.

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. Healthy vibrant soil healthy vibrant plants with built in disease and pest resistance and more nutrition. 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. May 1 2017 at 1 49 pm.

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. Planting flowers was a pastime when i was a child and i especially like the idea of a plant journal.