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- A vegetable patch for children - exciting and delicious
- When should the bed be created?
- How big should a children's bed be?
- The floor
- The right seed for fast gardening happiness
- Flowers provide variety
- Tips
Harvesting vegetables is a special fun for children
A vegetable patch for children - exciting and delicious
Children who are allowed to create and manage a small vegetable patch themselves can be playfully inspired for gardening and nature. The desire for crisp vegetables is awakened, because even sown and harvested, it tastes so good again.
When should the bed be created?
Spring is the best time to plan a vegetable patch together with the offspring. After the icy saints the earth is warm and the seed germinates quickly.
If you do not want to provide your offspring with an area of your own vegetable patch, the turf is torn off and the soil is thoroughly loosened up.
How big should a children's bed be?
Do not overstrain the offspring, for hours weeding the patience of the little gardener is not enough. About one to two square meters of bed area are sufficient for the beginning.
The floor
The fertile soil is the key to gardener success. Well loosened, humusy and permeable it should be. With mature compost and, in heavy soils, some sand, the quality of the earth can be improved. The seeds germinate quickly in the loose substrate, carrots grow straight and deep into the soil and the little gardeners can harvest round, crisp radishes.
The right seed for fast gardening happiness
Particularly rapid successes can be achieved with the sowing of:
achieve. But also peas and aspiring beans are very popular with children.
Gardener appeals to all senses. Sniffing, tasting, discovering how to develop sweet fruits from blossoms is exciting and promotes a view of the manifold processes of nature. That's why plants like
also in the vegetable patch for children.
Flowers provide variety
A sunflower, which towers over the kids by far and whose cores attract birds, provides variety. Bright nasturtium blooms not only magnificent and tastes aromatic in the salad, it can be transformed with meadow flowers into great bouquets and decorates the table. Even marigolds with their bright heads are very popular with children.
Tips
A bedding border made of wood makes it easier for kids to garden, because weeds do not proliferate unchecked in the children's bed and must be removed again and again. In addition, snails can be effectively prevented by an enclosure.