| Windowsill Herb Garden
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Kid Gardening Guide |
| When it is cold winter time outside try cultivating a windowsill garden with your little kid garden enthusuasts
. All you need is a sunny spot and a few containers of soil to get you started . Culinary Herbs are an excellent choice for windowsills and are easy to grow with children and they love snipping off a few leaves for your dinner
~ If you dont have a large backyard than windowsill gardens are ideal to provide a little kid gardening space | What's
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| Herbs Suitable for Indoor Herb Gardening | |
Basil
Coriander
Chives
Parsely
Sage
You can also try some of Maya's favourites Dill and Fennel | Kitchen Science for Kids, apart from growing experiments in your windowsill garden there are oodles of fun kitchen science experiments that can be conducted on your windowsill
We love this book of about pages stuffed with easy experiments for kids, Bird Detectives
Shades of Green
Tiny Worlds ( investigating the seasons and creating mini ponds)
Evaporation ) from windowsill fruit to mini textiles)
Light and Shadow
( creating rainbows)
We also loved growing a windowsill garden picnic- yummy |
| What you will Need for a Windowsill Herb Garden |
~ Grow Tubs and Pots of varying sizes for Growing Herbs ( in some garden centers you can buy specially designed window sill planters)
~ Try recycling old pots, plastic yoghurt containers with added drainage holes
~ Kids love decorating terracotta pots before planting their basic herb garden design
~ Seeds or baby herb plants
~ A south- or west-facing windowsill is ideal but Maya also had success with cress and exptic plant pips on a north facing window that is quite bright
~ soil ( that needs to be kept moist) |
| How to Create a Windowsill Herb Garden | Indoor gardening |
Choose your containers ( decorate if you like and add drainage holes if recycling)
~ Choose a saucer to catch exess water
~ add soil
~ add the baby herb plants
~ water well
~ label your herbs with their name, or make a garden plant label ( we love making garden labels as a garden craft activity with our homeschool group)
~ put into a bright warm space
~ water when the soil feels dry to the touch
~ avoid adding chemicals to culinary plants in your windowsill herb garden | An Indoor Garden is the easiest way to start a beginner garden with kids. It is easily managable and provides a good success rate in a realtively short time period
Indoor gardens as well as windowsill herb gardens are easily maintained and take little looking after if set up well from the start - just enjoy picking yummy herbs for dinner |
| Mini Windowsill Garden | Organic Mushroom Kits |
~ For Beginner Kid Gardeners a Mini Windowsill Garden is a good way to start.
~ Even little greenfingers can successfully grow a pot of chives or yummy cress.
~ We often find that age range stated are on the high site as Maya was quite happily growing herbs in her windowsill garden from age 4
~ ( just supervise some of the harder bits but enjoy the windowsill garden adventure ) | Not quite grown on a sunny windowsill garden but in dark cupboard instead as growing mushrooms requires darkness And we love harvesting the edible button mushrooms for tea and will try shitake mushrooms next
~ Maya and her Dad have been experimenting with organic mushroom kits and it is really funny to "go into the cupboard" to water the mushrooms
~ Our Mushroom growing page will tell you a little more about our success rate |
| Windowsill Garden Book We Love | |
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Maya loved Linneas book in Monets Garden and we saw this one as she wanted to create her own just like Linnea did - what a delightful book all about kid gardening, indoor gardening
The book is kind of like Linneas Garden Journal where she explains what she did day by day . And it shows that your dont have to have a great big backyard but can happily to create an indoor gardening patch of your own We also love the cute drawings and Mr Bloom explainging a little garden science along the way. There are lots of activities with seeds, how to take cuttings and what to do with exotic fruit pips. | |
| Indoor Gardening with Kids |
| Tip: Windowsill Herb Garden
Snip your Herbs often as regular cutting will encourgae lots of additional growth on your herb plant and ensure a long supply
~ Do you have a kid gardening space at home ?
~ What is your favourite sensory plant you like to grow when gardening with children ?
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