GARDENING WITH CHILDREN

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GARDENING WITH CHILDREN
Pam Paulsen County Extension Agent,
Horticulture K-State Research Extension - Reno
County
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GARDEN CONSIDERATIONSSite Selection

• Safe location
• Sunlight
• Drainage
• Protection
• Accessibility Convenience
• People
• Water, tools
• Wildlife

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GARDEN CONSIDERATIONSGarden Design

• Safety
• Maintenance
• Cost
• Accessibility -pathways, gates
• Irrigation
• Expansion
• Plant Material

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GARDEN CONSIDERATIONSSite Preparation

• Clean area -remove debris, rocks
• Prepare Soil
• Mark pathways and garden plots
• Construct beds
• Install Irrigation
• Construct pathways
• Plant

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GARDEN CONSIDERATIONSGarden Care

• Planting
• Watering, weeding, mulching
• School breaks, family vacation
• Plant protection
• Clean-up

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GARDEN CONSIDERATIONSEquipment Structures

• Trellis, Arbors, Fencing
• Tools, Storage
• Buckets, Sprayers, Hoses

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GARDEN CONSIDERATIONSFertilizers Pesticides

• Safe products
• Environmental effects
• Organic products
• Non-chemical methods

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GARDEN SAFETY

• Plant Material
• Chemicals
• Tools
• Supervision
• Physical Hazards

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GARDENING ACTIVITIES

• Theme Gardens
• Stepping Stones
• Weather Station
• Composting
• Worm Composting
• Scarecrow
• Adopt a plant

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Studying Soil
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Beautifying the Boys Girls Club
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Getting to know a tree
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Stepping Stones for All
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Fun in the Garden
Making Mud Pies
Planting Watermelon
Critters
Daisies
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GARDENING ACTIVITIES

• Keep a garden journal
• Press flowers
• Make soup from garden veggies
• Start a window herb garden
• Make garden markers
• Propagate house plants
• Force spring bulbs or shrubs

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Plant Propagation
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Plantable Seed Cards
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Making Stepping Stones
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Painting the Stepping Stones
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Painting Flower Pots
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Planting a Pizza Garden
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GARDEN THEMES

• Alphabet Garden
• Rainbow Garden
• Big Small Garden
• Petting Zoo Garden
• Pizza Garden
• Memory Garden
• Sunflower Fort or Bean Teepee

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Pumpkin Planter
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T is for Toothache Plant
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Pumpkin on a Stick
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GARDEN THEMES

• Bird or Butterfly Garden
• History Garden
• Geography Garden
• Research Garden
• Native Garden
• Variety Garden
• Succulents, sunflowers, tomatoes

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Entering through the Gourd Gauntlet
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Rub a Dub Dub...
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Petting Zoo Garden
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Yum...Pizza!
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Bean Tent
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Sunflower House
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• Enchanted Garden
• Zinnia 'Thumbelina'
• Zinnia 'Peter Pan'
• Grass 'Bunny Tails'
• Grass 'Fairies Joke'
• Cupid's Dart
• Bluebells
• Baby's Breath
• Rose 'The Fairy'
• Thyme (where fairies live)
• Bells of Ireland (hats for fairies)

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GARDEN LESSONS

• Entomology
• Math
• Art
• History
• Science
• Ecology

• Recycling
• Nutrition
• Senses
• Geography
• Natural Resources
• Life Sciences

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Doing some research
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Looking for critters
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TIPS

• Involve the child from the beginning
• Planning -location, design, plants
• Planting, Harvest
• Show, dont tell
• Assist, dont do
• Allow for extra weeds, broken flowers, early
  harvest
• Have fun!!!

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CURRICULUM

• 4-H Plant Science
• Project Learning Tree
• Junior Master Gardener
• National Gardening Association

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PROGRAMS

• National Gardening Association
• OWLS
• Junior Master Gardener
• Project Learning Tree

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Obee Elementary School February 2000
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Obee Elementary School September 2001
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-- The Secrets of Our Garden, Rupert Sargent
Holland
People think it's only a garden, With roses
along the wall I'll tell you the truth about
it It isn't a garden at all!
It's really Robin Hood's forest, And over by
that big tree Is the very place where fat Friar
Tuck Fought with the Miller of Dee.
And back of the barn is the cavern Where Jesse
James is hid On the other side is a big strong
box That belongs to Billy the Kid.
That isn't a pond you see there, It's the ocean
deep and wide, Where six-masted ships are
waiting To sail on rising tide.
Of course it looks like a garden, It's all so
sunny and clear --- You'd be surprised if you
really knew The things that have happened
here!
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