My five year old daughter set up this garden by herself(picture taken in May). I dumped a bag of soil for her. She picked out the rest of the items at the Dollar General, and set it up. I tried unsuccessfully to give her direction. She is very independent, so I backed off when she didn't appear to be taking any gardening advice. She was very happy left to her own devises, digging in the dirt, and rearranging her garden decorations. So it really surprised me when some lovely radishes appeared!
She had dumped the seeds and stomped all over them while they were trying to come up. There are a few other mystery plants growing in there that came from Dollar General seed packs. She would dump them in one spot before I got a chance to help her.Her garden appears to be doing better than my carefully cultivated veggie garden! My radishes were much smaller. Maybe next year I'll try the dump-seeds-and-ignore method. ;) I've got a soaker hose in my garden; she has a little green watering can - amazing. She's got a green thumb.
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What a charming little post! It is truly amazing what those little ones can do when left to their own devises! I tend to over analyze things and when perfect results are not achieved, feel disappointed. We can learn from the younger generation just as they learn from us!
How adorable! Sometimes it's amazing what we can learn from our children :)
I hope your little green thumb continues to love connecting with mother nature.
She may be like my mother. She was following her "papa" around the fields when she was a tiny girl and to this day at age 86, even though she can't anymore, gardening is in her soul. Its her favorite thing in the world.
I love your daughter's little garden. Its magical.
How sweet! She obviously knows what she's doing, maybe we should take a lesson from her.
Thanks for your comments.:) Her garden is still going - now we have huge sunflowers.
I love your garden lessons. I find them especially touching because I grew up gardening, and now am working (temporarily) in a university department that is working with urban schools on gardening projects. I'm sharing a link to some pictures from an urban garden field trip that our kids took, http://www.flickr.com/photos/umflintoutreach/5804123865/in/set-72157626774460177. It was amazing how much they loved seeing everything and how they chowed down on the radishes!
-elle,
giftsgatheringsandgusto.blogspot.com
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