Children who are allowed to create and manage a small vegetable patch themselves can get excited about gardening and nature in a playful way. The desire for crunchy vegetables is also awakened, because they taste even better when you have sown and harvested them yourself.
How do you design a vegetable patch for children?
A child-friendly vegetable patch should be planted in spring and be around 1-2 square meters in size. Radishes, carrots and lamb's lettuce bring quick results. Fruit and herb plants such as strawberries, cherry tomatoes and peppermint are also recommended. Flowers such as sunflowers and marigolds also provide variety.
When should the bed be created?
Spring is the best time to plan a vegetable patch together with your offspring. After the Ice Saints, the earth is warm and the seeds germinate quickly.
If you do not want to provide the offspring with an area of your own vegetable patch, the turf is cut off and the soil is thoroughly loosened.
How big should a children's bed be?
Don't overwhelm the young ones, little gardeners don't have enough patience for hours of weeding. About one to two square meters of bed space is sufficient to start with.
The Floor
Fertile soil is the key to gardener success. It should be well loosened, rich in humus and permeable. The quality of the soil can be improved with mature compost (€43.00 on Amazon) and, for heavy soils, a little sand. The seeds germinate quickly in the loose substrate, carrots grow straight and deep into the ground and the little gardeners can harvest round, crunchy radishes.
The right seeds for quick gardening happiness
Particularly quick successes can be achieved by sowing:
- Radish
- Carrots
- Lamb lettuce
achieve. But peas and tall beans are also extremely popular with children.
Gardening appeals to all the senses. Sniffing, tasting, discovering how sweet fruits develop from flowers is exciting and encourages an eye for the diverse processes in nature. That's why plants like
- Strawberries,
- Blueberries,
- Cherry tomatoes,
- Chives,
- parsley,
- Peppermint
also in the vegetable patch for children.
Flowers provide diversity
A sunflower that towers over the kids and whose seeds attract birds provides variety. Bright nasturtiums not only bloom beautifully and taste aromatic in salads, they can be transformed into great bouquets with meadow flowers and decorate the table. Marigolds with their bright little heads are also very popular with children.
Tip
A wooden bed border makes gardening easier for kids because weeds don't grow uncontrollably into the children's bed and have to be removed again and again. In addition, snails can be effectively kept out by a border.
