Growing plants with children has so
many benefits- learning plant life cycles, learning where food comes
from, and of course learning some responsibility along the way!
Growing a kid's theme garden can really connect children with their
garden patch.
Last year, we explored growing Rainbow and Pollinator gardens.
This year we will investigate themed vegetable gardens: a Taco garden
and a Pizza garden!
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We're also teaming up with Renee's Garden Seeds once again this year for a
seed giveaway. At the end of this post, enter to win 4 packages of
seeds including tomatoes, peppers and herbs. Giveaway runs from April
5th, 2016 to April 11th, 2016. Note: Renee's Garden Seeds provided
the prizes for this giveaway, however, I was not compensated in any
other way for this post, the ideas and opinions here are my own.
Growing a Taco Garden
Garden Peppers! ©SBF 2015 |
If you are interested in growing your taco garden in pots, you might try some of the container varieties from Renee's Garden such as: Heirloom Stupice or Super Bush.
Herbs are easy to grow on a patio or even indoors. For a taco garden you might try some cilantro, like this heirloom variety.
There are also many nice varieties of
lettuce that can be grown directly in the garden, or in a container.
I really like Sweetie Baby Romaine and Renee's Baby Leaf Blend.
For more varieties of Renee's Garden
seeds that can be grown in pots, check out this listing.
Lettuce mix growing in a container. ©SBF 2015 |
Growing a Pizza Garden
Dutch oven pizza! ©SBF 2015 |
Basil growing at the base of tomato plants. ©SBF 2015 |
Roma tomatoes are great for making
tomato sauce. Try this pizza sauce recipe with the kids. You
might try planting this Roma Sauce Tomato variety to make some yummy pizza sauce.
For further learning and discussion
about growing pizza ingredients, investigate So You Want to Grow a Pizza? by Bridget Heos.
To get you started with your taco or
pizza garden, we're giving away 4 sets of 4 packages of Renee's
Garden Seeds. Using the Rafflecopter box below you can enter to win
some tomato, pepper and herb seeds for your garden. Later this
summer, the winners will be asked to share how their gardens fared
this year! The giveaway runs from April 5th, 2016- April 11th, 2016.
Winners will be notified via e-mail and announced on the blog. Good luck and
have fun gardening!
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We have done the rainbow garden, and will be back by popular demand. We planted some pollinator plants last fall and are anxiously waiting to see action there this spring. I think this summer's project will be the taco garden. We have already begun some herbs and spices indoors in our play kitchen.
ReplyDeleteThat is great Deborah! I love to hear about all the awesome hands-on gardening and other exploration you do with your kiddos. Can't wait to see your pollinator garden!
DeleteThis looks like a good way to get kids more into gardening and seeing how food can be grown! And a great way to get them involved too. :)
ReplyDeleteKids love watching things grow, and I've found they are more apt to try a veggie when they have some ownership over it's growth. Thanks for stopping by!
DeleteI have never grown a garden before but I decided to step out of my comfort zone and started a small vegtable garden with my 5yr old son. He is my inspiration. We have not yielded any veggies yet. This article is perfect as it aligns vegtables with pizza, his favorite food.
ReplyDeleteTina I'm so excited that you are growing some veggies with your son. Gardening with kids has a lot of merit, even if it does not yield a lot of vegetables. I wish you all the best with it!
DeleteI have never grown a garden before but I decided to step out of my comfort zone and started a small vegtable garden with my 5yr old son. He is my inspiration. We have not yielded any veggies yet. This article is perfect as it aligns vegtables with pizza, his favorite food.
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