Gardening with toddlers
Frantic Gardener on May 19th 2007
For those planning to garden with toddlers, a word of advice - or several!
1. sow more than you need. When they help you pot on our plant out, there are a fair few casualties. Better just to be cheerful and have spares.
2. always have some pea or bean seeds for them to be busy planting anywhere if you have something a bit more delicate to do.
3. make sure your structures are really strong, and if something looks like a corridor, don’t plant along it, or excited feet will trample them down.
4. it is going to take way longer to do anything. for example I planted out 6 beans, and then DD2 required a hug for nearly an hour before being distracted by her trike. After 4 more beans, DD1 wanted to twine flowers in my hair.
5. Smile. growing is to instill a love for the land in them as well. me being uptight wont achieve that. I can always nip ou and fill in gaps. If its fiddly to sow and grow its best to wait until they are doing something else, or leave it out altogether