Many families encourage their kids to get outside into the garden. It has become easier and more accessible for kids, thanks in part to innovative plastic gardening tools and equipment available at many home or garden stores.
Here are a few gardening tips for kids to get started:
Tip 1: Go Vertical
No backyard? No problem. Create an urban oasis on virtually any wall with vertical gardening, made possible by innovative plastic products that allow plants to grow above the ground. Known also as “green walls” or “living walls,” vertical gardens grow up a wall both indoors and outdoors.
Tip 2: Use plastic containers
Even if there’s no room for a garden create a plastic container garden which is easy to manage, can be the size space permits and allow experimentation with different plants, soils and environmental conditions, indoors and out.
Tip 3: Enjoy feathered
friends
Kids can encourage feathered friends to visit the garden for many seasons with an inviting, durable bird house constructed of recycled plastic.
Tip 4: Start from seeds
Kids can reuse plastic nursery pots and seedling trays to grow herbs year round.
Tip 5: Get a Group Together
Most kids enjoy playing in the dirt with their buddies. Gathering friends to create a garden makes the mess into success, turning dirt time into an educational and fun activity.
Tip 6: Make a Gardening Chore Chart
Many children benefit from the structure of regular, meaningful chores an in gardening they can play a genuine role in caring for the garden.
Tip 7: Sharing is caring
A garden takes on special meaning for kids when its fruits can be shared. Sharing a bouquet of flowers with a friend or teacher … planting a row of vegetables specifically for a food pantry or ministry … inviting friends for harvest time … all great ways to cultivate a garden and caring kids.
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