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Potato Digging Hands scaledThanks to everyone who suggested ideas and activities to engage children in growing.

  • Select unusual coloured vegetables – grow a blue or red potato in a bucket
  • Grow seeds that are quick to germinate – pes and broad beans are good.
  • Show the whole plant cycle - from sowing a pea that grows and they can collect thr harvest and eat some and save other seeds to plant again
  • Plant in buckets/ pots so it’s easy to keep watered and less likely to be damaged by slugs, coloured carrots or a different type of tomato
  • Radishes and other salad crops are quick to grow and easy to eat
  • Sow herb seeds in pots and then use them for cooking
  • Sow mustard/ cress seeds on damp paper on a window sill
  • Strawberries can be planted in pots and troughs as well as in any spare piece of ground.
  • Let them choose colourful plants from a garden centre and plant into containers for a pop up display
  • Sow easy to grow sunflowers, marigolds and poppies
  • If you have any garden or an allotment – give them a small space that is their own
  • Encourage them to enter anything they grown into the organic show, and consider becoming a judge

There are some web sites with many useful resources and great ideas – so do take a look

https://www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/grow-plants/10-gardening-projects-for-kids/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/grownups/how-does-your-garden-grow

https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/health-and-wellbeing/children-getting-them-interested-in-gardening

http://childreninpermaculture.com/

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