Page 17 - Bringing out the Potential In Our Children - Gardeners - Food Producers

grown in pots on the windows (a good starting place for
beginner gardeners). Encourage your kids to grab a leaf to

eat and add some fresh herbs into your recipes.
 Make mint tea made with a handful of leaves. It is wonderful
warm or cold.

 Chives are excellent in salads or in scrambled eggs or toppings
on soup.

 Parsley is great in soup and I add it in my pesto recipe along
with my fresh grown basil.

5. Consider growing some strawberries, lovely to pick those sweet

berries straight off the vine. Strawberries can be happily grown in
pots, but if you have the space for a larger strawberry patch it’s

better, for the plants spread and multiply substantially from one
year to the next. Soon you’ll have some extra plants to share with
others. H-m-m maybe you have a friend or neighbor with an
established strawberry patch that they would be willing to share

some plants with you.

Fun-favorites for kids to grow and play in.

 Sunflowers. - These massive flowers grow quickly, and will
soon tower over your kids. Plant them around the edges of a square
growing area, and voila, a private sunflower house for your children to

play in.
 Pole beans. - Want another hiding spot? Try a bean teepee.

Tie three or four 10-foot poles together at the top, forming the basic
teepee structure, then plant a few bean seeds around the bottom of
each pole. Beans grow really fast, and before long you’ll have lots of
delicious beans to eat, plus a shady little hide-out.

How about turning your food scraps into new plants! Romaine lettuce,
celery and green onions easily grow from the parts that you would usually
throw away.

Here’s how to regrow them: