Windowsill Herb Garden

Windowsill Herb Garden for Kid,Create a Beginner Indoor Garden with Children

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LucyGardens.com - Gardening for Kids Kid Gardening Guide Windowsill Herb Garden
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 NEW
	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
Herbs Suitable for Indoor Herb Gardening
Basil Coriander Chives Parsely Sage You can also try some of Maya's favourites Dill and Fennel
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
~ 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 )
Windowsill Garden Book We Love	Organic Mushroom Kits
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.	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
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