Comments on: Gardening for kids. http://topveg.com/2007/04/20/gardening-for-kids/ news, reviews, hints and tips on vegetable gardening, fruit growing and herbs. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:17:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: TopVeg http://topveg.com/2007/04/20/gardening-for-kids/#comment-85 TopVeg Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:50:15 +0000 http://topveg.com/2007/04/20/gardening-for-kids/#comment-85 Hi Sara How wonderful to have a gardening club. Radish are good because you can have a crop to eat in a month. A lot depends on your term times. It would be a shame to have crops ready to harvest when the children are away on holiday. Crops ready to harvest within a couple of months are french beans, lettuce, perpetual spinach, turnips. French beans have the added advantage of large seeds, & you could grow some in jam jars just to watch the root develop. The spinach is very vigorous and can be picked for salads, or cooking. The turnips can be grown close together & used as mini veg. It is good to grow several things so that you have something for everyone. I hope the club grows into a succesful venture. TopVeg Hi Sara
How wonderful to have a gardening club. Radish are good because you can have a crop to eat in a month.
A lot depends on your term times. It would be a shame to have crops ready to harvest when the children are away on holiday.
Crops ready to harvest within a couple of months are french beans, lettuce, perpetual spinach, turnips. French beans have the added advantage of large seeds, & you could grow some in jam jars just to watch the root develop. The spinach is very vigorous and can be picked for salads, or cooking. The turnips can be grown close together & used as mini veg.
It is good to grow several things so that you have something for everyone.
I hope the club grows into a succesful venture.
TopVeg

]]> By: Sara http://topveg.com/2007/04/20/gardening-for-kids/#comment-84 Sara Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:10:52 +0000 http://topveg.com/2007/04/20/gardening-for-kids/#comment-84 Hi Top Veg, I am a teacher and I am starting a gardening club with the children at school. I am going to plant radish as it germinates quickly, what else should I grow? Sara Hi Top Veg,

I am a teacher and I am starting a gardening club with the children at school. I am going to plant radish as it germinates quickly, what else should I grow?

Sara

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