Passing the torch of gardening onto our kids is what all gardeners hope to do. Making the garden an interesting and fun place will pique kids’ interest in growing things and make the torch-passing easy. Kids are notorious for being impatient, they don’t have the patience to remain interested in gardening while waiting a week to 10 days for seeds to germinate, they want results now. These flower choices are fast to sprout and will help hold a kid’s interest by offering an unusual characteristic.
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Jewel colored nasturtiums usually sprout in about three days and the fun part about this flower is the blooms and leaves are edible.
Nasturtiums are high in vitamin C, make a colorful salad addition and have a peppery taste. If planning to eat nasturtiums, don’t use chemical pesticides or fertilizers on them.
Cosmos sprouts quickly and is easy to grow. The chocolate cosmos variety offers a uniquely colored flower that looks like fine chocolate and the flower has the fragrance of sweet dark chocolate.
A kid’s garden would not be replete without a few marigolds tucked in. Marigolds are extremely easy to grow, the blooms will last until frost plus marigolds offer natural pest protection to the other flowers in the kid’s flower garden.
Zinnias sprout in about three days and quickly grow to about three feet in height. Zinnias come in a wide range of bloom colors and make great cut flowers that kids can use to adorn the family dinner table or give as gifts. That will help foster a passion for garden when kids see how much others enjoy the beauty they have grown.
All it takes to engage a kid in gardening is one sunflower. Just one. More are better of course, but if there is only room for one plant, make it a sunflower. The classic sunflower will dazzle kids with its rapid growth. Growing several inches per day, kids love to stand next to their sunflower and compare heights. Sunflowers do come in different bloom colors and mature heights range from 2-12 feet.
At the end of the garden season when the sunflower is dried, the seeds can be removed and fed to the birds which presents another aspect of gardening to kids and further offers encouragement to them to plant and grow vegetation.
Kids naturally love to play in the dirt; harness that natural love of dirt and use it to encourage growing flowers. Chose easy-care, fast sprouting flowers that offer a unique characteristics to keep kids engaged in the growing process.
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