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Gardening Week: Mini Lavender Garden
Everything needed to grow lavender right in the pail. It’s a perfect child’s birthday gift, or Mother’s Day gift for grandma from a young child.
Food & Home
Gardening with Kids: Summer Planting
It’s not too late to start a summer garden with your kids. We point out the easy-to-grow flowers and vegetables you can grow in containers or in your garden.
Holidays
Celebrate the Vernal Equinox with a Spring Herb Garden
Spring begins tomorrow. Why not celebrate by planting your decorative and useful Spring Herb Garden.
Home
Urban/Suburban Hippies
Finding your inner crunch through a vegetable garden.
Home
Tomato Grow Bag
Tomato planting for Dummies.
Home
Urban/Suburban Hippies, Part Two
Composting. Ew. And yay!
Home
Indoor Gardening Tool Set
Prune and snip!
Young Child
So, You Want to Garden With Your Children
How hard can gardening with young children really be? Follow along while I take you through these 36 steps.
Young Child
Must Watch: Olive Us Family Video Series
Design Mom’s new family video series Olive Us, featuring her six children, is an absolute delight. Not only is it instructional, but you see the kids being kind to each other. Our children need to see more of that in this world.
Activities
Summer Craft: How to Make Terrariums with Kids
Terrariums are perfect projects for those without green thumbs and as an introductory gardening project and summer activity for kids. Here are some smart tips and a tutorial on how to make a terrarium.
Young Child
Why You Should Grow Food With Your Kids
Gardening can be a great family activity, and it’s an awesome way to expand your child’s food horizons, too!
Holidays
DIY Skull Planters for Halloween
Succulents will grow in anything with very minimal care. So let’s make our own planters and why not make them skulls for Halloween! Easy peasy!
Holidays
DIY Kitchen Garden Gift for Mom
We love these succulent plants that are planted into recycled food tin cans. They are cute DIY gifts for Mother’s Day.
Big Kid
Raising Kids, Growing Veggies: It’s All (Kinda) the Same
Is gardening really a decent metaphor for raising children? I think it is, in many ways. “You reap what you sow” is only kind of true… and that’s okay.
Activities
Summer Gardening: Cement Planter DIY
Looking to bring more of that blooming outdoors inside? Or, need some more beautiful outdoor planters? Learn how to make these cool cement planters with just a hint of color!
Activities
Exchange Gardening Seed Packet Cards with Friends
Wouldn’t it be cool if there was a holiday called Gardening Day and people who loved plants would give each other seed packets like they were Valentines?