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The Weirdest Foods You Can Grow In Your Garden
What really fires our children’s imagination is the extraordinary. Whether this week’s fixation is monsters, aliens, magical powers, superheroes or mythical lands, it’s always the strange and the super that inspires them. If you’re struggling to get them excited about their vegetables, then use this knowledge to your advantage: here are some right truly magical, and sometimes monstrous, fruits and veggies that you can easily grow in your back garden. The process of growing produce in itself can inspire a sense of wonder in children. It also helps to get them more involved in the food they eat: tomatoes grown from seeds are inherently more interesting than those in…
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Tips for Gardening with Your Kids
Gardening with the Kids: Gardening with children can be both challenging and rewarding. It also can either go really well, or horribly wrong. The outcome really depends on how you as the adult approach the situation. It’s your job to facilitate the gardening process and make sure things stay on track while keeping the kids interested and letting them have fun. Accomplishing those things together can be difficult but there are a couple of things that you can do that will help you in the process. Give them their own area Sectioning off a part of the garden that is just for the kids can make them feel…
