Garden and Green

Vegetable Gardening For Children

Setting aside a small patch of garden for your children or grandchildren for them to grow vegetables and flowers can keep them entertained for hours. You can keep an eye on them while you get with on doing the rest of the gardening without them getting under your feet.

Not only is gardening for kids eductational, it can also instill a love for nature at an early age. Its good exercise for them to. They will feel quite grown up when they are left in charge of the weeding and watering.

There are some great products specifically catering for little gardeners. Here are just a few;

Link a Bord Kit - Keeps their patch in a nice easily maintainable raised bed. £24.95 from Harrod Horticultural

Hand Tools - Able Gardener sell a nice pack of childrens tools that will make weeding and digging easy. £7.25

Younggardener.com has a great range of innovative child garden products such as this Sunflower Growing Kit. £3.50 This company sells

to the trade but stockist info for retail customers is on the site.

Unwins Seeds have created a special easy to grow range for green fingered kids, with appealing packets priced at 99p each.