Mixing up Compost
Some children will enjoy mixing up buckets of multi-purpose compost with perlite or grit.
Some children will enjoy mixing up buckets of multi-purpose compost with perlite or grit.
Design a new area of the garden with your children: Encourage them to draw their own designs on paper.
Mulching is a good job for children who just want to have fun, get muddy, and throw muck around the garden.
You could plant up a pot garden with your children: Involve them in choosing the pot and plants, planting and watering.
Sow sweet peas, oaks and sycamores with your children: They should be sown into deep pots of soil-based seed compost.
Go seed gathering with your children: this will open up their understanding of how the plant world works.
Hardy annuals can be sown into garden soil now: especially young children will enjoy shaking seed heads over bare soil.
Some little children would enjoy mixing up buckets of multi-purpose compost with perlite or grit.
Many young children enjoy weeding when it is presented as a fun shared activity, rather than as a household chore.
Some children may be uninterested in the garden, but are fascinated with potted cacti or with carnivorous plants.
Very interesting subject, any chance you got some site links about gardening with childeren?
Nice work!
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