Gardening with children
Get Growing!
Gardening is a great way to develop an interest in nature and the environment and growing and picking own fruit and veg is a great way to encourage anyone to eat more of them. If you have the space in your garden, why not give them a small patch of their own to look after? Even if you only have a windowbox, you can still encourage children to grow and look after some herbs or salad crops.
Gardening with Children
Below you will find a few practical activities that you can work on. We change these activities regularly in keeping with the season so that you will always have something relevant to work on. The activities are easy to follow, fun to do and give a good introduction to growing plants, gardening, and other garden related skills. It is not necessary to have a large garden as many of the activities can be done in a variety of locations and plants can be grown in containers.
Many older children will be capable of working through the activities by themselves, but gardening as a family or a group is better.
November
Autumn is now in full swing and the leaves of trees and deciduous plants will still be be fewer and fewer every day. And now the clocks have changed the days are shorter.
Keep sweeping the leaves into piles, put them onto the compost heap or into bags to make leaf mould.
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