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Keep it small, keep it fast
and keep it simple.
Those are three things to keep in mind when vour child wants to “help out” with a garden, according to Genie Cate of Great Falls Nurserv.
Cate owns and manages the Fairfax County nursery with her husband and also conducts classes with both the Loudoun and Fairfax counties parks and recreation departments.
“Kids are always enthusiastic at first,” Cate points out. But too much work, too long a wait to see results and dithcultv achieving those results causes that enthusiasm to wane.
“They don’t stay interested for long periods of time so you need projects where they don’t work for long periods of time,” she said. “You need plants that will grow quickly and are almost guaranteed to come up.”
Even with these limitations, Cate says children can participate in a wide variety of horticultural projects. Thev can enjoy and contribute to vegetable and flower gardens as well as balcony and patio gardens.
For vegetable or flower gardens, Cate suggests giving children a small comer. “Nothing too large that requires too much work.”
The young gardeners can even help prepare the soil,
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