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  • Novice gardener tips: Buying plants 101Friday,April 17, 2009

    If you’re just learning to tell Echinacea (coneflower) from Echinops (globe thistle), buying plants for your garden can be an overwhelming experience.

    It helps to have a list so you are less likely to come home with impulse buys for which you don’t have the space or the right growing condtion.Continue read…

Get Children Interested in Gardening

When the weather is nice, you want to spend as much time as you can outside with your family. And one activity you can do with the kids is .Egglings

Selecting for your children

  • Children are attracted to colour and colour combinations that are bright and vibrant.
  • Select that can stand up to a toddler’s hands, that have strong stalks and heads. Also, pick that can withstand a wide range of conditions, so you can teach your child to take care of them, with a larger margin for error.
  • that have multiple heads at one time will keep your child’s interest.
  • By choosing flowers that are fragrant, you can help your youngsters develop their sense of smell.

If you don’t have an outdoor space to plant in, or if it happens to be raining outside, there are many wonderful projects you can do with your child inside. There are products on the market such as egglings, nyokki and taterpots that teach a child to grow from seed, and also have fun things to look at while the seeds are growing.

Have a look at a full range of seed kits

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3 comments to Get Children Interested in Gardening

  • Mark

    I wholly agree with this! just this year as a family we decided to start a vegetable patch in our backgarden so over one of the nice weekends we had I took out one of the borders and the adjacent pathway to give us a reasonable size bed then we went with the children to choose the veg we wanted to grow!

    We choose a selection of beans, tomatoes, peppers (sweet and chilli for me!), butternut squash, carrots, cucumber and brocolli.

    The kids thoroughly enjoyed helping us prepare, first with the propogator trays and then with the planting into the main bed and pots!

    With the changeable weather we have had quite a good crop and currently have 1 freezer draw full of beans and the kids love the idea of eating food that was picked and grown in their garden! and we’ve enjoyed it as it’s emensely satisfying growing and eating your own food and I can’t wait to try my peppers :-)

  • [...] child I have ever known loves to play in the dirt and it may be one of the best ways to engage your child in the educational process without him even knowing what hit him.  Planting a garden gives a child a first hand knowledge of [...]

  • check out this one……

    Keep up the g00d work man!…

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