Getting The Kids Involved In The Garden
Having children help you in the garden when you are planting seeds, picking your vegetables or even just giving everything a good watering is a great way for them to get involved with the whole process of gardening and teaches them where the food that they eat is coming from (plus it keeps them out of trouble).
As well as help
ing with the planting of seeds there are countless other things that you and your children can do together. For example you could build a bird house, make a pond and teach them about all the different animals and insects that will live in and around it.
Something that I like to do with my little ones is give them a small patch of the garden that they can call their own and they get to choose which plants they want in there, it’s a great way of giving them a little bit of responsibility (which they love). Then when their vegetables or flowers have grown it is such a lovely feeling to see how happy and proud they are.
As you can probably tell I am quite passionate about getting kids involved in the garden and I really do urge you to give it a try, once they have their mini garden you won’t be able to keep them away from it.







