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| Gardening with Kids |
| This DIY Basic, brought to you by Neosporin, will provide tips on gardening with kids. |
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- Teach your kids how to garden by giving them their own small plot (figure A) that they can nurture and observe.
- Make a sign for the garden with your child’s name (figure B).
- Let her pick what she wants to grow. Steer her towards quick growing plants like lettuce and cucumbers.
- Include bright flowers at child height like zinnias and cosmos.
- Kids are amazed by towering sunflowers. Plant them in a semi-circle for the feeling of a flower playhouse.
- To hold her interest until the seeds sprout, plant a few existing plants in containers (figure C).
- Mark each plant with the tag or seed packet (figure D).
- Be sure to teach your child to avoid poison ivy.
- When you’re finished, wash with a poison ivy removal scrub in case one of you came in contact with the plant’s toxin.
- By letting kids have control of their own garden, you’ll be surprised at how much they’ll grow!
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- When gardening with younger kids, use big seeds. They can easily handle sunflowers, nasturtiums, beans, beets, melons, cucumbers, corn and squash.
- Kids will enjoy watching these easy-to-grow annuals: cosmos, sunflower, nigella, marigold, zinnia, aster, cockscomb, nasturtium and sweet alyssum.
- Kids enjoy plants that appeal to the senses. Lamb’s ear is soft to the touch.
- Growing their own food will get kids to try eating things they would otherwise avoid.
- After a good rain, show kids how earthworms help replenish the soil.
- Have kids work on a garden journal; drawing pictures and making notes about the plants and the insects they see.
- Collect sunflower seeds, and at summer’s end have the kids help with roasting the seeds.
- If you don’t have a yard, create a garden in pots on the patio.
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