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Children have a natural curiosity about the outdoors so encouraging their interest in gardening is not difficult. Gardening has all the attributes that capture a child's imagination, nature, colour, smell, touch and above all else mud! Getting children interested in gardening is also a great way to encourage them to care for wildlife and the countryside around them. A good starting premise I always think is - keep it simple and make it fun. Just make sure you are sensible about basic safety in a garden environment. Here are a few tips that will give your budding little gardeners a helping hand.

If you are a little precious about your garden, give your children a piece of ground of their own and let them fill it with simple plants that are easy to look after. Getting children to grow their own vegetables provides them with a great introduction to gardening. Most vegetables are easy to grow and there is nothing quite like getting them to pick the vegetables they have grown and see them placed on the table for eating. Potatoes are an obvious choice. Get children to grow them in containers where its easy to see emerging shoots and watch them grow. Salad leaves are another easy choice and have the added benefit of being quick to grow from seed to picking.

Get your children to appreciate the wildlife that lives in the garden by encouraging them to feed garden birds. Children love bugs, so set traps to catch all manner of insects from woodlice to snails, spiders to butterflies and allow the children to observe them at close hand. Supervised maintenance of a pond is also guaranteed to capture their interest. From frogs and toads to magical dragonflies and water boatmen. Getting children to help set up a wormery is also a good way of getting them to interact with nature, helping them to understand the complex relationship between the earth and wildlife in creating compost.

There are many plants children will just love to grow. Make sure you choose simple plants that are easy to grow from seed, grow quickly and do not take a lot of looking after. Sunflowers are a great favourite. Not only do they tick all the boxes, but they grow into real giants. Set up a competition to see who can grow the tallest sunflower! Summer annuals are also great for children to grow. Get them to create their own display of bright colours in garden planters that can be placed on a patio for all the family to enjoy.

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