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The Best Herbs to Grow with Children

Best herds to grow in garden

Gardening with kids can be a learning AND sensory experience. Children learn best with they activate their sense of sight, touch, smell, sound, and taste. Adding an herb garden can be the easiest way to start gardening with your kids.

I am excited to introduce you to Victoria a talented mom with education schooling and experience in organizing local mom groups. She shares her parenting journey and kid activities at Squiggles and Bubbles.

The Best Herbs to Grow with Children

I’m so excited to be a part of the Educators’ Spin on It’s Kids in The Garden project-we absolutely love gardening as it’s such a fantastic sensory experience for both Bubbles and Squiggles!Every time I visit my parents’ place I love going outside and wandering through mum’s veggie patch. It’s not only a source of food but an amazing sensory garden with all it’s overgrown herbs.

I wish we had the room at home to make a similar one as I can just imagine all the fun the girls would get up to in it; unfortunately, our backyard is quite small and made up of concrete and wood.

Make an Herb Container Garden

Having a small space doesn’t mean we can’t have an incredible, sensory garden though! Our local garden center has all sorts of wall gardens suitable for both permanent fixtures and temporary ones- I’m sure if you look you’ll find some at your local garden center too. My husband and I opted to make our own using supplies we already had in the garage.

To make our sensory garden we simply took three rectangular planting pots and screwed them on to our wooden fence. (One of them already had herbs growing in it and the other two had potting soil in them.)

Bubbles then filled up the pots with dirt from our veggie planter box, making sure to transfer some friendly worms at the same time. Once they were three-quarters full, she took great delight in mixing the dirt with the potting soil so that we could begin the real fun and PLANT (or in Squiggles’ case, un-plant) our herbs!

The Best Herbs to Grow with Children

Our herbs are still growing but from previous experience, these herbs are our absolute favorites to plant from seed as they grow almost like weeds and can take most of the ‘love’ Squiggles and Bubbles dish out:

  • Alfalfa
  • Basil
  • Mint
  • Parsley
  • Cilantro
  • Rosemary
  • Thyme

What You Can Do

Why not take a trip to your local garden center this week and choose some herbs to plant with your kids?

Victoria is a stay-at-home-mum of two beautiful girls (3 years and 13 months). She is also the voice of the blog, Squiggles and Bubbles where she shares all the fun they get up to during the day.

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For more gardening with kids articles and information visit our Kids in The Garden post with over 50+ ideas and activities to do with children.

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Comments

  1. Cathy says

    March 5, 2014 at 8:17 am

    Oh, that brings back wonderful memories. My son is now 21, but I remember growing and watering herbs and the joy it brought to both of us!

    Wonderful post.

    Reply
  2. Amanda Boyarshinov says

    March 5, 2014 at 9:29 am

    That is a wonderful memory to have Cathy!!! I remember gardening with my parents too and hope that my kids can look back on these younger years and remember the fun times we've had with dirt and plants. Do you garden now???

    Reply
  3. Jennifer Steck says

    March 5, 2014 at 7:25 pm

    There are so many life lessons that can be learned by gardening together, even beyond eating healthy. I wish I had done more of this when my son was little many years ago.

    Reply
  4. Jacquie Fisher says

    March 6, 2014 at 1:19 pm

    We grow basil every year! And then try other new herbs (sometimes just for the beautiful smells).

    Reply
  5. Amanda Boyarshinov says

    March 6, 2014 at 9:53 pm

    I planted basil this year, but am not having much luck. The parsley and cilantro on the other hand are doing quite well. I tried lavender, but our gardening zone just doesn't mesh well with the plant.

    Reply
  6. Amanda Boyarshinov says

    March 6, 2014 at 9:54 pm

    I agree Jennifer, I think I learn and grow while in the garden, and I'm 34! It's never too late to start!

    Reply
  7. Victoria says

    March 14, 2014 at 6:26 pm

    Thanks for taking the time to read my little contribution Jacquie. 🙂 It doesn't seem to matter what I do with our basil it just keeps growing. My mum has troble with the normal basil Amanda, but the lemon basil grows really well for her-might be worht a try. 🙂

    Reply

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