Garden with kids.
Fun to grow: sunflowers, gourds, pumpkins, luffa sponges.
Easy vegetables: radishes, beans, peas, zucchini, potatoes, tomatoes.
Easy flowers: marigolds, Cosmos, Nasturtiums, sweet alyssum, blue flax.
Grow morning-glory vines or scarlet runner beans on a simple trellis outside a bedroom window. Make a bean teepee.
Plant a color bowl.
Crowd with color. Mix heights and textures. Change flowers as they fade.
Use vinca, sweet alyssum, Lobelia, dwarf Dahlias, Dianthus, ivy geraniums; mix in herbs such as chives and oregano.
For shade use Impatiens, Begonias, and Coleus.
Start a compost pile.
Make a simple frame with wire, build a box, or just make a heap.
Use layers of leaves, lawn clippings, soil, garden waste, kitchen wastes.
Keep evenly moist; turn often. Works faster in the sun.
Avoid branches, heavy leaves (mulberry, walnut, fig), and needles.
Plant some strawberries.
Find a spot with at least half-day sun, or use an oak barrel.
Keep evenly moist; a drip system is ideal.
Plant Sequoia for best flavor, but also plant some of the newer summer-bearing
types (Selva, Fern, Hecker, TriStar).
Replace your plants every 2 - 3 years.
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