Tempt your Kids with Chocolate and Pizza Themed Gardens!

Springtime is here and these are the months to create a garden that is kid friendly and will generate enthusiasm in your kids. If greens are not presently counted among their favorite foods, this may be the way to tempt their taste buds without any resistance on their part. Kids are much more likely to try foods that they have grown in a backyard garden area.

Let your kids help you plan the garden from the first moments and have fun with this activity. Make it interesting by appealing to their sense of whimsy and humor. Offer choices like a Giant Pumpkin Patch, a Peter Rabbit Garden, a Flower and Fruit Garden, a Pizza Garden or make TeePee Circles. Find out what type of plants they consider to be the most fun; you can even have a Chocolate themed garden. Some parents even make a small garden devoted to one or two colors that their children love such as yellow and orange, or green and purple.

Look for unusual seeds that will grow quickly and produce odd vegetables. There are yard long beans, spaghetti squash, Hansel and Gretel eggplants, pods that have multi colored peas inside, and Easter Egg radishes. Lettuce and radishes are 2 of the quickest plants you can grow and use which helps keeps kids interested in what is happening.

Here are some useful ideas:

Plant Easter Egg radishes or colorful carrots that are purple, red, yellow or white to make kids excited about the garden produce.

Find assorted lettuce seeds and grow these in a shallow bowl of potting soil in the kitchen. Let the children harvest their greens to make salads or garnishes every few days. You can even use this as a centerpiece on a table and let everyone clip their own salad greens.

Finding seeds and plants that have unusual names, different colors add interest to any veggie garden.

Giant Pumpkins can grow to weigh 200-900 pounds and this is sure to excite the imagination of any kid. Think of the enormous jack-o-lantern one of these would make.

The idea of growing delicious spaghetti inside a gourd (squash) is a winner with most kids. While it is not true spaghetti, it is remarkably similar and can be prepared with tomato sauce.

A  Pizza Garden could contain tomatoes, basil, rosemary, bell peppers, zucchini, and onions.

Chocolate themed gardens would contain plants with the word chocolate or plants and foods that have brown colors.

In a Peter Rabbit Garden, you would grow carrots, lettuce, and spinach.

Flower and Fruit Gardens are perfect places for marigolds, violets, melons, and berries.

Tee Pee Circles are made by arranging bamboo stakes or other sturdy poles so that they are angled to form a wide, circular base and come together at the top. Be sure to leave an opening so that they have a readymade door. Then plant running beans or pole beans all along the perimeter. As the beans grow, they will twine up and around the poles to create living TeePee Circles that kids can use to hide and play in. The beans can also be picked and eaten because the leaves will continue to provide the covering for the TeePees.

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