Sadly im not much of one for messing about in the garden.

I love gardening with my family. We enjoy planting basil and rosemary. Cherry tomatoes are like a weed at our house, so we don’t have to plant them, but we do enjoy picking and eating them!

It is usually gardening bonding time with my little one and her grandfather.

if I can get kids I know or the grandkids too, ould make me complee a proyject been fo ages wanted too do. A vegie arden healy food to eat,my own veggies what a treat. Me and my pommie nephew whoI love,he would help with the above

And as messy as it can be everyone likes playing in dirt

My kids enjoy picking vegies from our garden for awhile til they get bored!

Kids love gardening! Definitely helps them when it comes to eating vegies too!

Love gardening and love the produce from the garden. Gardening brings joy to everyone, time spent outside, together time and the wonder of watching produce grow and then eating some of the produce.

Wonderful article, I really enjoyed reading it! I’ve never been interested in gardening, always wondering what the big deal was, but as I’ve gotten older I’ve become more interested and can see the benefits! I’ll be starting a veggie garden very soon which I’m most excited about, and I’ll be encouraging my kids to help. I know my youngest, who is 3, will be very keen to help me (and likely take over). I wish I’d gotten into it sooner, but better late than never!

Yes miss 3 and I have a garden. She loves planting all types of things. Beans, spring onions are her favorite

My 3yr loves to help me in our little veggie garden.

I do know this, but I’m not and have never been a gardener. My Mum often exclaims how she has 4 children and not one of them likes gardening. I reply that she was so good at it, we didn’t need to be! We have all low maintenance plants that my husband takes care of. I kill everything – except two very special gardenias that I’ve managed to keep alive. I just recently killed a cactus terrarium and my small bamboo is looking sick too. Both of these are supposed to survive anything — except me, obviously!!

Great tips for a great and such constructive activity. Before kids I always loved to garden. But since I’ve kids it so doesn’t have my priority, I’m afraid I never did much gardening with my kids…

A good learning idea. Dads need to dig the soil over and add gypsum if it is too hard. Vegetables will not form properly if the soil it too hard. For those listed above it needs to be soft for the roots to penetrate the soil after the fine little leaves have come through the topsoil. They may even come up quicker than it says on the back of the packet. Spring onions grown amongst carrots stop little grubs attacking the actual carrot in the soil.
You can buy Junior Garden Tools too, not necessarily plastic when they are big enough to handle them. Even old table forks can used to loosen little weeds in between rows of seeds / small plants. Later on they might like to progress to drawf beans so they are low enough for them to help pick the beans when they are ready. The birds love to chew off the tops of peas as they come through or soon afterwards so I suggest you don’t encourage them to grow them or they will lose interest very quickly It can be very upsetting seieng your peas starting to grow, then suddenly there is only useless stems. They don’t re-shoot.

Think I am about to start this with my boys loving the tips.

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  Enjoy setting up your garden – the children will love having their own little patch in the garden.

Brings back memories of me working with my own parents in our garden and me with my own special patch to grow what I wanted. I did this with my children, but they didn’t have the same passion as I did and have not continued the tradition. Pity – my grandchildren have missed out.

Oh gosh I love this post – it is a special thing to do with kids!

My 1 year loves the garden!

After my toddler’s childcare educator told us he loved helping in their veggie garden, we have decided to start our own little garden for him to tend to. We have just bought everything we need to start a veggie patch so over the next few weeks this will be a little project for us to get started.

I used to garden more with my daughter when she was younger. She’s 13 now. Her favourite were the sunflowers. They grow so easily and they are absolutely beautiful to watch growing!