How to Involve Children in Gardening

Your garden is a lovely but time consuming place in your yard. On the other hand so are your children, sitting in front of the video game consoles and computer screens. Do you notice anything amiss? Like a lot of potential free workforce that is sitting idle instead of helping you with your gardening?

The moment has come to introduce your children to the wonders of garden maintenance services. In order to succeed with your plan you need to make fun of the whole activity.

Here are some useful Garden Tidy Ups that can help you with your goal.

• Digging in the garden to make holes for the seeds or for the potatoes should be something your small children will love. Have you seen how dutifully they dig in the sand beds in the kindergarten? Let them play with the soil and help you with that activity.
• Planting the seeds, flower bulbs or the potatoes will be another job that your children could be involved in. Don’t worry, you don’t need to invest money in new equipment because the buckets are too heavy for your kids. You can use them as carriers for all those beach toys you purchased for your little ones during the summer holiday. Check to see how many sand pails, shovels, rakes and strainers are sitting unused in your basement.
• Leaf collection is excellent exercise and you can utilize all the above mentioned toys in a leaf clearance. You can even make it a game of which one is going to make a bigger pile with gathered leaves and throw in some rewards for the winner.
• Weed control is another extension to the leaf collection and garden clean up.
• Harvesting of small vegetables and fruits like tomatoes, strawberries and cucumbers can also be turned into great fun for your children. Making chutney afterwards could be a family bonding moment that your kids one day will remember with fondness.

If you have teenagers at home you can expand the range of gardening help. Of course here you have to find more money consuming rewards but be sure that once your grown kids discover the joys of gardening they will continue to help you without more financial stimuli.

They could be involved in more complicated labor incentives like lawn mowing, restoration and repair. As they are older than the little ones you can teach them how to use tools like scissors or how to operate the lawn mower.

• Grass cutting around the flower beds will be a tremendous help for you. Once they become used to work with the garden tools, you can teach them how to do the hedging.
• Hedge trimming and pruning will develop your children’s artistic sense and don’t be surprised if they give you new and creative ideas for the garden landscaping. Sometimes children need manual handiwork to expose their dormant talents. They may not become gardening experts but it’ll do a number on their cognitive skills.
• Patio cleaning is also a work that you can transfer to your adolescent family members.
• Lawn maintenance will save you plenty of time and will teach your children how to use relatively simple machines. This could be not only another gardening duty you have written off, but also an experience for your offspring to become proficient in. Someday your children will have their own families and gardens to tidy up. In the short term future this could be a way of earning extra cash for your teenagers, just by mowing other people’s lawns.

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