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Growing
a Vegetable Garden
Garden Harvest Tips
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~ Maya and I love growing our own fruit and growing a vegetable garden
for home grown garden produce to cook and eat
~ Most vegetables and fruit ripen at the around summer time resulting
in a lot of excess
~ Preserving Vegetables and Preserving fruit form the garden produce so
that we have lots of yummy vegetables and fruits throught the winter month
is a fun garden to kitchen activity for kids and adults alike
~ You don't have to be self sufficient byt the taste of yummy homemade
herb oils in winter and a yummy strawberry yam sandwich awakes memories
of lovely summer days spent in the garden
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Kid Garden Harvest
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How
to Harvest your
Kids Garden Produce
Vegetable harvest and Fruit Harvest Tips |
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Benefits
of home grown food
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Condition |
One
of the Easiest Garden Harvest Pleasures for Kid Gardeners is home
grown herbs
~ many can be eaten straight off the bush and the also preserve well
~ Growing Herbs with Kids is fun to
as they can be trained into many shapes around garden wire armatures
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home grown food has a variety of benefits for kids and adults alike
~ a home grown tomato simply cant be beat in the sweetness of its taste
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look at the fruit or vegetable you would like to pick and pick it at its
peak condition
~ some varieties like to be picked young for extra sweetness like peas,
some to encourage further growth
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Careful
Picking
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Vegetable
Harvest |
Garden
Harvest Tips
~ pick the fruit or vegetables to be preserved carefully
~ bruised produce will quickly rot
~ Best Pick when you are ready to preserve straight away, the longer the
lie about the more Vitamin C vegatbles and fruits loose and often their
sweetness too |
Garden
Grow Vegetable
~ Easy grow Vegetable Plots can be created in even the tiniest Kid Garden
Space
~ Grow Vegetables in Containers if you only have a patio or windowsill
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Vegetable List A to Z |
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what you Love |
Fruit
Harvest |
Garden
Harvest Tips
~ only plant those varieties of fruit and vegetables that you actually love
eating the most
~ If you dont each much courgettes (zucchini) then you will be amazed how
much a single plant can produce - choose your varieties wisely so you dont
have to harvest surplus and throw it away)
~ If you do grow more then you need then suprise your neighbor and friends
with a basket of home grown produce |
Pick
fruit
Pick your own fruit
~ If you do not have a kid garden or space to grow fruit try a pick your
own fruit farm
~ Kids love going to pick their own strawberries and raspberries and many
a red lip returns form a yummy tasting adventure :-)
Fruit List A to Z |
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Care of your Produce |
Home
Grown Mushroom |
Garden
Harvest Tips
~ once you stored your vegetables and herbs for drying check then regularly
for signs of mold,mildew or the beginnings of rotting symptoms
~ Remove any rotten bits to reduce the impact of spreading it to the other
produce |
Maya
loves growing her own mushrooms
~ It does take regular watering and a dark place in a warm space but it
is amazing whenn suddenly the whole box is full of home grown mushrooms |
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Gardening with Kids |
Garden
Harvest Tips:
When Harvesting your vegetables and fruit and herbs see that you also harvest
some vegetable seeds,flower seed,herb seeds and fruit seed ready to grown
new annuals in the next season
~ Vegetable Seeds are easy to harvest
, they need a good drying in a warm space so they dont get moldy
~ Vegetable Seeds can then be stored ready for next year
~ Herb Seed harvesting is easy too - wait til the flowers are in
full bloom, then let them ripen t collect the herb seeds when they are ready
~ Herb Seeds can be used the next year or sherb seeds can aslo be started
early in the greenhouse
~ Some Herb Seed varieties are self
seeding, meaning once the plant releases it seed and it falls to the groung
it will get buried and appear again in the next year
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