Gardening with Thomas

April is National Gardening Month. So while there is still some of April left, have your kids help you plant a garden. Thomas and I have been working on our gardening outside. We have only really dug around in the dirt and experienced worms. He loved them, of course.

We are also trying to start some apple trees. We saved the seeds out of a couple of apples and planted them in a cleaned rotisserie chicken container. I saw online how you can turn one of these into a mini green house. So I thought it was worth a try. I’m slightly afraid that my lack of a green thumb will cause our apple trees to remain seeds in a bunch of planting soil, and never turn into anything. But if so, at the age of two maybe he won’t remember.

After we get all of our garden areas prepped and ready for plants and seed, we are going to go to town and pick out the plants. I plan on having Thomas help me pick them out from the look of the plants and from the pictures on the packages.

I honestly thought that having Thomas help me with a garden was just to help me occupy his time and maybe help his fine motor skills with all the digging in the dirt and what not. But after I started searching ways online to garden with children it turns out that it even helps them learn to focus for longer periods of time. WIN!

I plan on making him help me will all of the gardening – the soil preparations, the planting the plants and seeds, the weeding (we might have issues with this one) and the watering. Especially the watering. He loves playing with the hose and playing in the water.

Wish us luck on our garden… and hopefully I won’t kill it off before it starts to grow. Maybe…Just maybe…my little boy will have gotten a green thumb and not be a plant killer like his mom.