{"id":24251,"date":"2014-03-06T09:00:49","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T14:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/?p=24251"},"modified":"2015-03-30T21:45:26","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T01:45:26","slug":"gardening-with-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/gardening-with-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Gardening with Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By contributing writer Tabitha.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">Over 18 years of marriage we&#8217;ve had the chance to plant gardens in many of the places where we&#8217;ve lived.\u00a0 In each of those places, we had children to help out with the garden. I have to say, the kids were very involved in each of these experiences and seeing a garden through their eyes was one of the best things about all the hard work and dirt!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24338\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24338\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24338 \" title=\"Gardening with Kids | The Happy Housewife\" alt=\"Gardening with Kids | The Happy Housewife\" src=\"\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/files\/2014\/03\/Gardening_With_Kids.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/files\/2014\/03\/Gardening_With_Kids.jpg 450w, https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/files\/2014\/03\/Gardening_With_Kids-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-24338\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Samuel checking the tomato plants<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">Things I&#8217;ve Learned About Gardening with Kids<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Keep it simple! Don&#8217;t try to plant everything or get the soil just right. Get something in the ground and take care of it. Especially the first year. Otherwise, you can get overwhelmed easily.<\/li>\n<li>Research what grows well in your area, how to prepare the soil, etc., but don&#8217;t go overboard. There is such a thing as trying to control too much with a garden. Ask your neighbors what works for them.<\/li>\n<li>Kids can handle more than you think. Give them some responsibility, and they will impress you.<\/li>\n<li>Plants can go through a lot and still survive. Most are quite hardy. Go for it, and don&#8217;t let fear govern your garden.<\/li>\n<li>Plant what you like to eat, and eat what you grow.\u00a0\u00a0That being said&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Kids will be more interested in eating something they grew, so it&#8217;s a good time to try something new! We did okra&#8230; that was interesting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">Things My Kids Have Learned Through Gardening<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The weather means a lot when you are growing a garden. You need rain, but you don&#8217;t want hail. You need lots of warm, sunny days, but it&#8217;s hard to water a dried out garden.<\/li>\n<li>Pests are very real things. Bugs can eat your harvest before you even have it ripe. Deer are animals you want out of your garden.<\/li>\n<li>Farmers work really hard to get food to the farmers&#8217; markets and grocery stores. It doesn&#8217;t just appear in the stalls or on the shelves.<\/li>\n<li>Growing things takes patience. A little seed takes a while to become your favorite vegetable or fruit, and work goes along with it.<\/li>\n<li>Plant biology is fascinating and very cool to watch close up.<\/li>\n<li>Eating your own harvest is awesome. Being able to give some away is even better.<\/li>\n<li>Preserving food (freezing, canning, drying) is another neat thing to learn when you have extra that you want to enjoy later.<\/li>\n<li>Different things grow better in different areas of the country. We&#8217;ve had gardens in Ohio, Texas, and Missouri, and in other states we have grown plants in containers because we didn&#8217;t have a yard.<\/li>\n<li>Real work gives real results. Work hard.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_24248\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24248\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24248 \" title=\"Gardening with Kids | The Happy Housewife\" alt=\"Gardening with Kids | The Happy Housewife\" src=\"\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/files\/2014\/02\/IMG_2816-450x600.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/files\/2014\/02\/IMG_2816-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/files\/2014\/02\/IMG_2816-450x600-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-24248\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Samuel in the Squash plants<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Gardening is one of the best ways to show kids real results from working hard. There are other ways, but it&#8217;s wonderful to see the understanding of what goes into the food we eat. Even if only one of your plants produces anything, it&#8217;s still a success. It&#8217;s science, religion, work, and family time all in one activity. Grow a garden this year!<\/p>\n<h3>More you might like&#8230;<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/home-management\/how-to-make-garden-stones-with-kids\/\">How to Make Garden Stones with Kids<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/frugal-living\/three-ways-to-save-in-the-vegetable-garden\/\">Three Ways to Save in the Vegetable Garden<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/home-management\/frugal-gardening-tips\/\">Frugal Gardening Tips<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/frugal-living\/gardening-on-a-budget\/\">Gardening on a Budget<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/frugal-living\/diy-compost-bin\/\">DIY Compost Bin<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\" href=\"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/author\/tabitha\/\">More posts from Tabitha<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By contributing writer Tabitha. 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