growing a vegetable garden by lois ehlert

With nice big seeds pumpkins are easy for little kids to plant and they sprout quickly. It is easiest to grow lettuce from seedlings rather than seed, and you should be able to buy a tray that has few different varieties. Picking your own salad is great fun! Lettuce comes in all different colours and varieties, is quick to grow and doesn’t need full sun.

Kids love picking peas and eating them fresh from the garden, and it’s easy to dry the peas and save them as seeds to plant next year. You plant peas a little earlier than beans so grow them up your teepee support in early spring, then plant some beans a few weeks later to grow over summer. There is nothing better than munching on fresh green beans while sitting in your bean teepee! Find instructions for growing a bean teepee here. If you choose climbing beans you’ll need to provide some kind of support for them to grow on, so build a teepee out of garden stakes and grow yourself a cubby house. My kids beg to plant zucchini seeds every spring because they want to make this easy and delicious zucchini bread.īeans are nice and big and easy for little fingers to plant directly into a garden bed or pot. There are two great things about growing zucchinis 1) it’s easy to grow a lot of them and 2) you can use them in so many ways. There are lots of interesting types of carrots too, you might like to grow some purple ones! Grow them in spring or autumn and you should be pulling baby carrots within a few weeks. You can find instructions for growing your own microgreens here.Ĭarrots grow really well in a deep pot, in fact they probably do better in a pot than in the ground if you have hard clay soil like we do. You can grow them in a shallow container on your window sill, they grow fast and they are lots of fun to snip off with scissors when they are ready to eat. Microgreens may sound a bit hipster but they are really just a big sprout. Find step by step instructions for growing sprouts here. You don’t even need dirt to grow alfalfa sprouts! Grow them in a jar on your kitchen bench where you can actually see the seeds sprouting. They’ll grow right through spring summer and autumn and they have an interesting flavour for kids to try. You’ll see the first sprouts in just a few days and they will be ready to harvest within 30 days, or earlier if you eat them small. Radishes are not fussy, it doesn’t matter where you plant them, and they grow fast. Try some of these easy veggies to grow with kids!

Growing a vegetable garden by lois ehlert