Gardening With Children

By Cindy Naas

Part of the motivation for putting in a vegetable garden in my city garden was to show my children how their food grows.

I wanted to pass down the my father’s love of gardening to my sons, and so I have always made sure that each child gets to grow something every summer.

It’s amazing, too, how quickly a child who hates veggies will gobble down a plate of green beans if he grows them himself. Growing veggies can be good for your child for so many reasons.

Here are a few good choices for teaching beginning gardeners how to grow things they can enjoy:

1. Radishes- these germinate Read the rest of this entry »