Gardening with Children!

Spring is a wonderful time to get outside with your children and start planting.

You don’t need to have green fingers or a garden for you and your children to enjoy growing your own flowers, fruit and vegetables.

child planting a herb bee friendly garden

Benefits of gardening with children:

  • Promotes healthy eating

  • Teaches life cycles

  • Gain a greater understanding of the environment and sustainability

  • Teaches responsibility

child holding some seedlings

Easy vegetables to grow with children:

  • Beetroot

  • Broad beans

  • Sweetcorn

  • Radishes

  • Wild strawberries

  • Herbs such as thyme, basil and chives

home grown sweetpeas in the garden

Easy flowers to grow with children:

  • Sweet peas

  • Sunflowers

  • Calendula

  • Nasturtiums

bee friendly herb garden sat on grass

Eco Top Tip

When buying compost, topsoil and potting soil please buy peat free! When they dig up peat for selling, unique biodiversities are lost and with that rare birds, minibeasts and plants are lost. This is why we only send peat free compost!

Our favourite Book and Activity Kits which include at least one gardening activity:

Bees
Bees
from £24.00
Isabell Fisher