Children who are allowed to plant and cultivate a small vegetable bed themselves can be enthusiastic about gardening and nature in a playful way. The desire for crunchy vegetables is also awakened, because they taste even better if you sow and harvest them yourself.

Harvesting vegetables is great fun for children

When should the bed be created?

Spring is the best time to plan a vegetable patch together with the offspring. After the Ice Saints, the earth is warm and the seeds germinate quickly.

If you don't want to provide your offspring with an area of your own vegetable patch, the turf will be cut off and the soil thoroughly loosened.

How big should a children's bed be?

Do not overwhelm the offspring, the patience of the little gardeners is not enough for hours of weeding. About one to two square meters of bed space is sufficient to start with.

The floor

The fertile soil is the key to gardening success. It should be well loosened, humus rich and well drained. The quality of the soil can be improved with mature compost and, in the case of heavy soil, a little sand. The seed germinates quickly in the loose substrate, carrots grow straight and deep into the ground and the little gardeners can harvest round, crunchy radishes.

The right seed for fast gardening happiness

Particularly rapid success can be achieved by sowing:

  • radish
  • carrots
  • Lamb's lettuce

achieve. But peas and beans that grow high are also extremely popular with children.

Gärtner appeals to all the senses. Sniffing, tasting, discovering how sweet fruits develop from flowers is exciting and promotes an awareness of the diverse processes in nature. That's why plants like

  • strawberries,
  • Blueberries,
  • cherry tomatoes,
  • Chives,
  • Parsely,
  • peppermint

also in the vegetable patch for children.

Flowers ensure diversity

A sunflower, which towers above the kids by a long way and whose seeds attract birds, provides variety. Luminous nasturtium not only blooms splendidly and tastes aromatic in salads, it can be transformed into great bouquets with meadow flowers and decorates the table. Marigolds with their radiant little heads are also very popular with children.

tips

A bed edging made of wood makes gardening easier for the kids, because weeds do not grow uncontrollably in the children's bed and have to be removed again and again. In addition, snails can be effectively deterred by an enclosure.

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Vegetable garden