Articles Tagged: gardening with children

Achtung Baby or Green Finjers

By Suze Nowak, Jul 17, 2011

I'm a disaster when it comes to plants, flowers and indeed all things botanical (I'm a disaster when it comes to kids too quite often but that's another story).

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Get kids gardening: saving seeds

By Debbie Webber, Sep 14, 2009

There's no denying it, summer's doing her swan song and autumn's on the way. While I do love the mellow season of crunchy, ...

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How to attract wildlife to your garden #2: bug and bird food

By Debbie Webber, Jun 27, 2009

Attracting wildlife to your garden is all very well but we want them to stick around (although slugs and snails are not ...

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Creating fairy gardens and homes

By Debbie Webber, Jun 20, 2009

The children are tired from a long day at school and you're fed up with them getting bug-eyed in front of the television. But ...

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How to create a sensory garden

By Debbie Webber, Jun 17, 2009

I admit there's more plastic in my garden than I'd like. There's the swing (actually metal and plastic), sandpit (not wooden, ...

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Top five gardening books for families

By Debbie Webber, Jun 13, 2009

I admit, I'm a bit of a book-buying junkie. My shelves positively groan with gardening books, but step into any decent ...

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How to attract wildlife to your garden #1: bug and bird homes

By Debbie Webber, Jun 8, 2009

Not only is your garden a haven for family life - allowing you to nurture mind, body and soul - but it can be a haven for ...

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Get Kids Gardening: Make your own seed packets

By Debbie Webber, May 30, 2009

Gardening with children needn't be expensive if you largely manage to avoid nurseries and garden centres and bin catalogues ...

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