Gardening with Children!
Spring is a wonderful time to get outside with your children and start planting.
You don’t need to have green fingers or a garden for you and your children to enjoy growing your own flowers, fruit and vegetables.
Benefits of gardening with children:
Promotes healthy eating
Teaches life cycles
Gain a greater understanding of the environment and sustainability
Teaches responsibility
Easy vegetables to grow with children:
Beetroot
Broad beans
Sweetcorn
Radishes
Wild strawberries
Herbs such as thyme, basil and chives
Easy flowers to grow with children:
Sweet peas
Sunflowers
Calendula
Nasturtiums
Eco Top Tip
When buying compost, topsoil and potting soil please buy peat free! When they dig up peat for selling, unique biodiversities are lost and with that rare birds, minibeasts and plants are lost. This is why we only send peat free compost!