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Gardening with Kids

Baby’s diggin in the dirt

by plantgirl on June 3, 2008

Yesterday I found one of my strawberry plant’s had died and my spinach has not grown - and it is now (finally) getting too hot for them to do good anyway - so I will probably just pull them up and put something else in.

My beets were doing good - until I became too focused on checking my strawberry plants and turned to see my 2 year old had pulled most of them up. She gave me her intent “I am a good helper!” look and what could I do? Seconds before she had been gently patting the dirt down around some very established strawberry plants. I have to admit I don’t appreciate this sort of help but it still was cute.

She also likes eating strawberries - including green [click to continue...]

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Gardening with my 2 year old

by plantgirl on April 28, 2008

It turns out that gardening and my toddler go hand in hand. I spent the weekend planting annuals and weeding and my 2 year old loved helping. Only she actually helped! She did not pull a single flower and even pulled some weeds. Of course the biggest fascinations were the shovel, gloves, and dirt. [click to continue...]

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