August Home-Garden

Garden GateKids in the Garden


Pizza WheelPizza wheel

Did you ever notice how kids like to have their own stuff, separate and distinct from everyone else's? Well, the same could apply to gardening space. Rather than asking them to toil in your patch, it might pay to set aside a special area just for the children. While you're at it, consider buying child-size gardening tools, which will be less awkward for them to handle.

Keep the garden plot small and manageable. After all, you don't want them giving up on it after a few weeks. Let the kids assume responsibility for planting, weeding and watering. They can also play a role in designing the patch and deciding what to plant.

One design kids can relate to is a pizza wheel. It's colorful and intriguing in shape yet small enough for a child to manage. Create a wheel with a circle of rocks, bricks or cement blocks. Use wooden boards or stones to dissect the wheel into equal sections so there's room for a variety of plants.

Deciding what to plant can be fun. If you want to end up with a bed that looks like a pizza, mix clumps of yellow and red annuals (the cheese and sauce) throughout the plot. Small, 6-inch circles of darker red annuals can serve as the pepperoni. Use firewood logs around the edge as the crust.

More appealing from a culinary standpoint is an edible patch. In that case, sow lettuce, spinach, beans, red cabbage, turnips, beets and garlic.

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