Garden Markers Are Just One Way to Include Children in Your Favorite Hobby
You reap lots of pleasure and personal satisfaction from your time spent in the garden. You could be enjoying it even more by sharing it with the kids or grandkids in your life. Sharing your hobby with young children is a great way to bond with them and, at the same time, increase your own enjoyment. Spring rains will soon be here softening hard winter Earth and getting it ready for another growing season. To help you involve the children in your life we’ve got some ideas for making gardening a kid-friendly activity at every stage from seed to garden markers.
1. Start Them Now With Inside Prep
Before it’s warm enough to work outside you can have kids help you inside. Let them accompany you as you select seeds whether you do it via catalogue or the Home and Garden Center. Have the children take part in starting your seedlings indoors. You could start seeds in containers you make yourself with newsprint or even in cardboard egg cartons. The point is that they can start helping you right now.
2. Have Them Help With Getting the Garden Established
Once it is time to work outside, be sure to give children an active role. You can let them be part of making the rows – have them hold the string, create the furrows, put seedlings into the ground. Show kids how to use plant markers so they can properly identify plants before they grow large enough to become recognizable. Older kids can write the names on plant markers while younger tikes can have fun poking them into the soil.
3. Give Them Their Own Area
If you don’t think they’ll have the diligence to help you in your full-sized garden, why not section off part of your garden and let older kids have autonomy over their own planting and growing space. Let them choose the plants, prepare the soil and be responsible for their own garden in miniature.
4. Let Them Enjoy the Benefits
Whether you have children assist you with an herb garden or a vegetable patch, be sure they have the fun of harvesting and working in the kitchen with what they have grown. This could be chopping their own basil for spaghetti sauce made with home-grown tomatoes or using several peppers and tomatoes to create their own salsa. The point is that they experience the fun of using what they’ve grown to create delicious foods.
Why not start young introducing the kids in your life to an enjoyable lifelong hobby they can share with you? At Kincaid Plant Markers we believe in the good of home gardening. We make plant markers suitable for professional gardeners but we make markers ideal for the home gardener as well. Have some family fun in the garden this summer and when you do, we hope you’ll be using Kincaid Plant Markers.
