Kids Gardening: Making A Vegetable Garden With Kids

Making A Vegetable Garden With Kids

Creating a garden provides an oppurtunity for children to learn about the world around them and experience it with all their senses. Making a veggie patch is one idea towards this goal and it can be a simple process. It also doesn't cost a great amount to achieve.

Getting started:

• Ask your child what they would like in their garden.
• Older children could draw, paint and construct what their garden will look like.

Gardening allows children to be involved during the entire process.

You need some tools:

• Trowel or small child sized spade
• Watering can
• Wheelbarrow (optional)

You need a space in your garden for your Kids Veggie Patch.
Triple T Dad found some disused rain water tanks, sliced them in half and filled them with soil, compost and manure for some awesome above ground garden beds. Great height for the kids to work at!

You need some seed raising mix and some seeds.

 

 

Here's the pumpkin seeds we collected from last seasons crop. Hope they grow!

 Scoop some seed raising mix into prepared troughs.

Sprinkle seeds over the top of the seed raising mix and use the trowel to cover the seeds with soil. 

Water the seeds in well...getting to those hard to reach places! 

Wash your tools to get rid of any nasty microbes.

 

Links to the Early Years Learning Framework for Australia:

• Children are connected with and contribute to their world: keeping plants alive by providing for their needs, taking care of young plants, some plants provide food for people, other plants provide food only for animals, observing the growth of plants
• Children have a strong sense of identity: express their ideas, accept the challenge of caring for plants
• Children have a strong sense of wellbeing: use their senses to explore the world around them, use gardening tools safely
• Children are confident and involved learners: explore and participate in gardening activities, make predictions about what will happen to the seeds
• Children are effective communicators: expresses ideas 

Chook - 37 months



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