Chocolate rabbits would replace those pesky live ones, jelly beans would grow on bushes, and birds and butterflies would fill the air with their humming wings as huge tomatoes, invisible carrots, and glowing strawberries grew below them.
There would be no weeds, flowers would keep blooming and instantly reappear when you picked them. It brims over with enthusiasm and excitement, a perfect pick for a spring reading, or any other time for that matter.Īfter a little girl helps her mother weed, water, and chase rabbits so they won’t eat the lettuce, she imagines the kind of garden she would like to have. Win.Do you want to encourage “thinking outside the box”? Do you want the help a young child’s imagination soar? Do you want to inspire love for nature and gardening? Well, reading Kevin Henkes’ book, My Garden, is certainly one way to achieve these goals. Radishes take about 30 days from seed to table…and they’re bright red and round and fun to pull. Of course we plant other stuff as well, but little kids are impatient and need to see some progress. But every year we plant radishes because they’re one of the fastest growing veggies out there. Don’t go overboard - there are a ton of tools for gardening with kids, but really all they need is a watering can and a kid-sized shovel.Ģ.) Plant some things that grow quickly. I’m not a radish person. And you don’t have to buy new - there’s a great selection on eBay, and you can check garage sales and thrift stores.
And also - free labor. Here are a few tips for gardening with kids.ġ.) Get them their own tools. We like these Melissa and Doug Sunny Patch tools, but there are lots of other children’s gardening tools.
The fresh air and exercise does all of us good. Studies show kids involved in planting their own veggies are more likely to eat them. When it’s finally time to plant here, the kids get to work, too. The weather turns warm, I get suckered into planting something fun and colorful outdoors, and then we get a snowstorm that buries my flowers and a little bit of my soul under a foot and a half of snow. It’s staying light later…and yesterday, it was almost 70 degrees here.
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