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Gardening With Your Kidsby Kate WhinehallI was planning to write a post about gardening with kids. Everyone’swriting them. They write about the joys of digging in the dirt withtheir kids and seeing the smiles on their faces when they bite into thatfirst home-grown vegetable the child raised themselves.But then I thought about it and realized, I don’t really like gardeningwith my kids.You’d think as a homeschooling mom that I’d be overjoyed toincorporate living off the land into our curriculum. And I was. Until weactually tried it.One early spring day I decided to pull out my seeds and plant a few inpeat pots to prepare for the summer. I thought, the kids will love this. I’llteach them about plant propagation, the importance of wateringseedlings, and giving the plants enough light and nutrients. They’ll watchthe entire life cycle from seed to our bellies. We’ll make charts anddraw pictures and this will be our entire science curriculum for half ayear. It’ll be great!
THE FUNNIEST THINGS PEOPLE HAVE SAID ABOUT GARDENING 165Nope.This is how it went.I carefully laid newspaper down on the floor, but kids are kind ofmessy. Did you know that? Before we even got the seeds out, soil was allover the basement. My kids looked like Mike Rowe from Dirty Jobs. Itwasn’t fun . . . for me.So, when the weather warmed up, I tried again, outside.I gave my, then four-year-old, daughter a shovel and showed herwhere to dig in my square foot garden. I came back a few minutes laterand all the soil was outside the garden, on the grass!So then I thought, forget the digging, I’ll just let them plant the seeds.So they picked out sunflower seeds and we planted those in separate pots.The biggest mistake I made was, of course, not labeling the pots. Not withthe tag “sunflower,” which I did, but with each of my kids’ names.Because here’s what happens when you forget to label with your kids’names:Kid 1: You watered my sunflower! MOM! He watered my sunflower!That’s MY sunflower!Kid 2: No. This is MY sunflower. See, your pot had a chip in it.Kid 1: No it didn’t! YOUR pot had a chip! That’s my pot!Kid 2: No, it’s not.
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TABLE OF CONTENTSIs Gardening For Y
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