Comments on: Gardening Inspiration for Children

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:24:07 +0000

The winner is Marla with comment #8. Congrats!!!

By: Brittany

Brittany — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:24:58 +0000

My son is 5 and I have really wanted to start a garden and plant some flowers with him. I have never done ANYTHING like that though. I don’t even know where to start! I am going to check out some of these books in hopes they have good instructions! Thank you! I always enjoy your writing!

By: Ashley

Ashley — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:59:26 +0000

I love your garden ideas. We have 4 little ones and would love to get them started on their own fun garden. We had thought about doing a pizza garden for the kids because we LOVE pizza. I would love to try out the Sunflower garden and the Moon garden (we just love looking at the stars). Thank you again for the ideas.

By: Amita

Amita — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 02:32:25 +0000

I was just surfing the other day for kids garden ideas so was really happy when I saw your post. My daughter has just started watering the garden in our new house with her baby watering can. Unfortunately it’s Autumn here “down under” in Australia. I can’t wait till Spring to plant a rainbow garden and a pizza garden – just the thing to go with my homemade pizzas from the breadmaker!

By: Alicia

Alicia — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 01:29:05 +0000

This is so timely! We are planning our garden right now. I am going to submit to my children several different offers that you mentioned and see which one they like. I’m leaning towards the sunflower tepee and the rainbow, sounds so lovely!! Thanks for posting this. It made me smile.

By: Nicole Chryst

Nicole Chryst — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 01:27:34 +0000

This is our first summer in our new house, so we will be doing a lot in our new backyard. We have NO plants or flowers to speak of. We will be starting another vegetable garden and I know my daughter would LOVE the Sunflower House – what an awesome idea. She’s also really into Tinkerbell, so I can see a Fairy Garden in the future too. So much to do!

By: Emily Cole

Emily Cole — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 01:00:06 +0000

I have a small copse of bamboo in my backyard, and I am planning to clear out a spot in the middle, with a path so the kids can play in there during the summer heat! I also have a special place in the garden for my kids to plant whatever they want. Last year we had potatoes, sunflowers, daffodills, and petunias all mixed up in there – it was great!

By: erin

erin — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 04:25:49 +0000

by the way… the pizza garden… hmmm.. sweet idea.

By: erin

erin — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 04:25:03 +0000

I have already been eyeing this book. Did I read about it on your blog from last summer? I’m not sure, but I already have figured out what part of the yard I’d like to do it, and have been trying to decide how to convince my hubster that it will actually work!

By: Molomatic

Molomatic — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:37:32 +0000

Tons of great ideas here! My daughter is already looking for fairies in the garden. We are involving her in our veggie garden. She helped pick what to plant and has been having fun planting the seeds. I can’t wait to see her running out to pick veggies and eat them on the spot. The Sunflower Houses looks like another great giveaway, thanks!

By: Missy

Missy — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:30:20 +0000

the rainbow and pizza idea are just adorable! I can’t wait to get started :) Thanks for the ideas. Just bought a trunk load of veggie and herb plants today.

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:23:23 +0000

So excited to get out there and garden again

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:28:59 +0000

Thanks for another great post, Tiffany. We are thinking of doing some pot gardening this year. I got “I Love Dirt!” for Christmas and am really enjoying the tips and ideas out of it. Too bad all the winter suggestions pertained to snowy lands, we didn’t get an inch of snow this year! :(

By: Madeleine

Madeleine — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:15:45 +0000

Great ideas! We’ll be trying the teepee and also the rainbow, apart from us having a regular garden with tomatoes and herbs.
Thanks

By: Krista

Krista — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:11:18 +0000

This book looks great.

By: Melinda S.

Melinda S. — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:52:35 +0000

What a neat book….and the pictures look fun!!

By: Dion

Dion — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:39:57 +0000

My three boys and I are doing a worm box and going to give the sunflower house a try.

By: Casey

Casey — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:39:08 +0000

I love the idea of a pizza garden and we just may try the sunflower house this year. The kids are dying to plant something. I can’t wait for spring.

By: Cori

Cori — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:38:08 +0000

The sunflower house sounds great to me. They are easy to grow and the house would last into the fall. I’m jealous that others are already planting peas (how about a pea teepee?)- my Maine garden still has a foot of snow in it!!

By: Pamela

Pamela — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:36:55 +0000

I have never gardened before and we are actually setting up a garden this year! Woo Hoo!