Children love to dig in the dirt and gardening will teach them many valuable lessons while they do it.
Through the eyes of your grandchildren the birds and bugs in the garden becomes a lesson in biology - when they ask "why" and you take the time to answer. And growing seeds becomes a scientific experiment with the details they will learn according to their age. 
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Autumn Gardening is a very important season.
Short season gardens need to be put to bed. Warmer zones are starting a whole new growing season.
A little effort in the garden during fall can make your garden ready to go next spring.
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What to plant so that your grandchildren will stay interested in the garden?
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You can plant 'things we can eat' and 'flowers we can pick'. Cherry tomatoes grow well in pots and produce lots of little tomatoes that are fun watch them grow and ripen ready to pick and eat.
Flowers that are easy to grow are pansies - they bloom profusely and love to be picked! Another thing I like about pansies is that they press well and therefore can be used for many crafts. How cool is that? Using flowers you grew in your own garden with Grandma!
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A Child's Garden will draw parents into their children's timeless, carefree world and perhaps back to a time when they themselves explored streams, played in the sand, studied bugs, and roamed without agenda.
A Bee's Eye View of a Daylily
Stamens of a daylily (Hemerocallis), thickly covered in pollen
Honey bees visit as many as 1,000 flowers a day. They use their long tongues to sip nectar from the flowers. They store this nectar in their honey stomachs. The honey stomach is a special organ that breaks down the sugar in the nectar. When the bees return to the hive, they spit up the nectar. They give some of the nectar to other bees. The rest, they put into empty cells. That is where the nectar turns into sweet honey.
When a honey bee buzzes from flower to flower, it collects more than just nectar. Pollen sticks to its hairy body and hind legs. The bee brushes this pollen into "baskets," or sacs, on its hind legs. Later, when the bee returns to the hive, it kicks off the pollen into cells in the hive. Honey bees use this pollen as food.
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An Excerpt: Painting What Where and When How to Use Viola and Pansy Great plants to grow for many crafts. Violas look like small pansies. Viola and pansy blossoms come ..."
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Have the right tools for your Grandchildren - that is half the fun!
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Easy to use reel mower
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How to meet the challenge of getting kids into gardening.
- Getting Kids into Gardening
- Meeting the challenge of getting kids into gardening.
Gardening Table of Contents
- Autumn Gardening is a very important season.
- I Love Dirt - NEW!
- What to plant so that your grandchildren will stay interested in the garden?
- It will be Fun Growing these Flowers
- Offers 17 different gardening projects with kids in mind
- A Child's Garden
- A Bee's Eye View of a Daylily
- Crafts from Nature - from your garden
- Our Pansy Patio Garden
- Fine Art Digital Nature Photography
- Gardening in Small Spaces with your Grandchildren
- Have the right tools for your Grandchildren - that is half the fun!
- Let your Grandchildren Dress-up for Gardening
- Easy to use reel mower
- Put your flowers in cafepress and sell them
- How to meet the challenge of getting kids into gardening.
- Live LadyBugs - a must for your garden!
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