How To Enjoy Gardening With Your Kids

So many kids these days are into video games and tuned into some other sort of electrical equipment. Its time to take them back in the good ol' days. Take them outside and get them down n dirty. Today's article is about how to enjoy the garden with your kids. Don't make it a chore to weed, explain the purpose behind it... Here are some more helpful tips and tricks.

Step 1: Wow them

Wow kids with nature’s speed by planting radish seeds, which come up in three to four days, and before long your kids can enjoy topping their salads or sandwiches with the fruits of their gardening labor.

Try container gardening if space is limited.

Step 2: Amaze them

Amaze young gardeners by planting easy-to-grow sunflowers destined to become taller than Dad, and watch them develop a taste for the nutritious sunflower seeds.

Step 3: Engage them

Engage the budding scientist in your kids by introducing them to the business of earthworms, slugs, snails, and other creatures they may encounter while gardening.

Reinforce hands-on gardening experiences with stories, drawings, songs, and cooking lessons.

Step 4: Attract their attention

Attract a child’s attention and curiosity by planting a butterfly garden to draw the delicate winged creatures to the backyard for observation, and enjoy watching the child’s love of nature blossom.

Step 5: Delight them

Delight kids with nature’s versatility by making a bean shelter. Arrange six bamboo poles in a 4-foot-diameter circle, tie the pole tops together with twine, and plant pole beans around the circle, which kids can later harvest.

Step 6: Feed their need

Feed their need for a variety of fresh vegetables by growing unusual produce, like red carrots or miniature vegetables. Soon the young gardener will sprout new tastes and their own green thumbs.

Sunflower heads are not a single flower, but 1,000 to 2,000 individual flowers joined together by a receptacle base.