A Garden for Kids

I have had a vegetable garden ever since my children were small. We lived in a different house then and had a huge field where we planted two large gardens. I would send the kids out to pick peppers and tomatoes, summer squash; whatever was ripe, right before dinner. Those days of small children picking tomatoes is vivid in my memory.

Now is the time for you to start your vegetable garden or flower garden indoors.It is such a great activity for kids to see things grow and become stewards of the earth. Believe me when I tell you it's simple, it's simple.

I had stopped growing my vegetables during my divorced but resumed the following summer.I found great solace being in my garden, digging in the dirt and watching my flowers and vegetables spike and grow. I had no little children that were interested anymore and thought they had forgotten what it was like to be involved in a garden.

After planting rows and rows of vegetables and tending to them like a mother hen I had to let them take off, just like my children. One morning while my 20 year old was out in the yard with the dogs, I heard her calling to me,"Mama, Mama, come quick." I thought something had happened to one of the dogs, and when I went to the back door found my daughter picking the freshest green beans. The art was not lost, and she has helped me in the garden since, whenever she can, always inquiring and picking and tending to our vegetables and flowers like a mother hen. Her favorites pumpkins, we had a bumper crop of five this year, and it was so wonderful to see them grow, also sunflowers,so beautiful!!!

So in the coming weeks when spring is just around the corner we will begin our gardens indoors.Fresh veggies from your garden to your table and beautiful flowers as well, will make you cherish this wonderful place we call mother earth.