4 Ways to Get Your Whole Family Involved in Gardening
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Since the pandemic, gardening has become one of the go-to’s for people. This is a way to stay safe in your home while still getting to experience mother nature at the same time. There are more than enough benefits to getting to the garden. It’s the perfect way to add a bit of curb appeal to your lawn, you can grow your own fruits and veggies, plus this is one of the best ways to have family bonding time.
The great outdoors and children go together perfectly. Kids love to learn, they love to be out in nature, plus gardening is one of the best ways to get a child to learn about wildlife and the ecosystem. Having a family fun time outside in your garden allows you and your family to make some of the best memories ever. It allows everyone to connect, and some great lessons come along the way. Need any more convincing? These are some kid-friendly ideas to get your whole family out there to play around in the dirt. So let’s get growing!
Let The Whole Family Come Up With A Plan
Why not allow everyone in the household to take a part in revamping your garden? Letting your little ones draw up some blueprints of how they’d like the garden to look is a great opportunity to get them on board with the idea. Kids like to have a say in things, when they have a say, they’re far more inclined to get involved. Of course, this can also be said about adults as well. Let the children in your household come up with some ideas they’d like to try. This could include a little design plan, and some plants they’d like to try and plant. There are some great ideas for garden project with kids on this post.
While gardening can be all about structure, it doesn’t truly need to be. Think about it for a moment, both children and adults need to deal with structure every day. From work, school, assignments, and the daily routine, there’s usually not too much wiggle room, right? Gardening allows people to go outside their boundaries, it’s an excellent way to feel freedom. So why not give your little ones some space? This could be their own little plot or maybe even a planter box for them to try out their own ideas.
A Dedicated Day
When it comes to gardening, why not create a designated day such as a Saturday or Sunday to go out into the garden and work on it? Of course, in warmer months such as the summer, this could require your attention weekly. But no matter what month or what season it is, there is always something that needs to be done in the garden. In the summer months, there’s so much to do such as planting veggies or flowers, Autumn is used for deadheading and picking up leaves, Winter is for preparing for spring, and spring is for preparing for summer.
So there will always be something that needs to be done. But if you have something such as a dwarf wall greenhouse then you could technically grow stuff all year round. Nonetheless, creating a set plan for your space and your family is going to be for the best. It shows that you are committed to it, they need to be committed to it, and it can become this super fun family tradition that’s done every month. Ensuring that this happens every month is the best way to push your kids into enjoying it. It’s not force, but it’s encouragement as it lets them know the amount of work that goes into gardening.
Harvest Homegrown Fruit And Veggies
One of the best feelings in the world is getting to see the produce that you’ve grown. It’s such a happy feeling that encourages you to keep trying for more! Your child is going to feel the same way about this too. Let your child do the harvesting. It’s one of the best pleasures in life that’s included in gardening. Another added bonus would be the fact that harvesting is a lot of fun! One concern many parents have is whether or not harvest can be dangerous for their little ones. Sure, holding some sheers could be scary.
But it doesn’t need to be scary, plus why not give them some child-friendly gardening scissors? Not every plant needs to be clipped off when harvested. Tomatoes, cucumbers, and lettuce are all some of the best examples of safe-to-harvest produce. If you have berries in your garden, then those can be pretty safe to pluck off as well. Just let your little one do the harvesting, they’re going to have a lot of fun and they’re going to feel so accomplished.
Get The Whole Family Involved
What better way can you celebrate your bountiful harvest? By cooking of course! Get your whole family involved in the delicious fruits and veggies you all grew in your garden. This gets the whole family to have fun with cooking while at the same time rejoicing about all the delicious food that was grown. Plenty of gardeners have noticed that their kids are more inclined to eat what they got to see grow and harvest in their garden.
Even if the kid is quite young, they’ll take an interest that their hard work producing food. So this is a great way to get your kids to eat their veggies. Even if your kids are too young to help with cooking then why not let them clean the dirt off the veggies? This is a great way to get them to still stay involved in helping out. If you have green beans, you can let them snap them, if you have berries then you can get them to remove the leaves. If you are growing your own flowers, let them help you make flower crowns out of them.
No matter what age your children are, just let them get involved in the garden. Gardening is a fun and rewarding experience for anybody of all ages and it pushes you to truly have a love for mother nature and the ecosystem as a whole. For more tips, have a look at this post.
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