| The Womb Issue
In the spirit of The Womb Issue, this story honors the many ways life is nurtured, carried, and brought into being. A womb can be physical, spiritual, ancestral, creative, communal, or chosen. Here, among little hands pressing seeds into soil, watering cans tipped with care, and children watching for the first green signs of life, gardening becomes a tender lesson in legacy. Want to grow a few edible plants with your kids? Both you and the little ones will have loads of fun learning where veggies come from with these super-easy indoor planting projects. Through each seed, sprout, and small harvest, children begin to understand that care is a living inheritance, one passed through patience, attention, and joy. We do not have to be mothers, or have wombs, to birth beauty, nourishment, memory, and meaning into the world. Sometimes, we do it by teaching a child how to tend what is alive.
Start small and make it fun: Schedule a time to check on the plants each day with the kids, and move plants into sunnier or shadier spots as needed.
Choose plants that grow fast: We all love a bit of instant gratification, and kids can lose interest if things take too long—so start with ultra-quick growers such as sprouts, then move onto rapidly ready veggies such as carrots and radishes.
Consider all the senses, from smell to taste and touch: The wider the appeal, the more you’ll catch and hold kids’ interest.
Grow things you can eat raw: Microgreens are a great option, as are baby tomatoes, which kids usually love to snack on already.
Choose the right tools: Mini tools are best for small hands, as are the right-size gardening gloves if needed when moving outdoors. In particular, invest in a small watering can that the kids can easily handle.
As an assistant gardener, Skylar knows labels are always a good idea, as they help keep track of what has been planted, where, and when. Creating them is a fun side project, too.
Watering is much easier with an easy-to-handle watering can suitably sized for children.
Kids adore the idea of creating “homes,” so a great way to pique their interest in a growing project from the outset is to make a set of special “houses” in which their vegetable garden can live. Even better, make the greenhouse mobile by placing individual plant containers on a trolley.
Does the water need changing? Are these carrot tops ready to harvest? Assistant gardeners Miles (in a mustard top and jeans) and Skylar check on their sprouting bags.
Re-grow new leaves from vegetable cuttings: it’s quite wonderful to behold the way lettuce varieties such as cos, romaine, and baby gem—and root vegetables such as carrots and beetroot—will sprout new leaves when their bases are placed in water.
Like tiny individual greenhouses, these easy homemade cloches are the perfect place to grow herbs, whether from seed or nursery seedlings, planted in small, individual terracotta pots. Cloches create a microclimate around plants, protecting delicate, newly germinated seedlings from cold air—and curious pets.
China Rose radish and, in the background, sunflower microgreens.
Skylar puts together a freshly harvested miniature salad.
Making planting labels and flags is a creative side project that also teaches kids the importance of keeping track of their gardening processes and experiences. Keeping a gardening diary or journal could also be a good way to keep older children engaged and aware of the daily processes of planting, watering, and harvesting.
Microgreens are flavorful, tiny plants that are nutrient-dense sources of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants—and have the added advantage of growing fast, too.
Baby potatoes—with one showing sprouts—and two types of sweet potatoes. Although they are all tubers, potato varieties are often confused. Baby and new potatoes are part of the nightshade family of plants, while sweet potatoes are from the morning glory family—and the latter are not the same as yams, either. There are several good explainers on YouTube about this that you could watch with your kids as part of your potato-growing project.
Growing various types of tubers, from baby potatoes to sweet potatoes, in buckets is a great way to teach kids about how these vegetables grow—and the results are delicious.
Creating a calendar that counts down the days until your anticipated potato harvest is a good way to keep kids engaged with the process.
To grow various kinds of sweet potatoes, a sprouting process is required, which is both an attractive and exciting project for kids.
Discovering that most plants are originally grown from tiny seeds is a magical and exciting moment for any child.
Teach kids the art of seed saving by removing and drying seeds from tomatoes, peppers, and chillies—all of which are especially easy to grow from saved seed.
Microgreen seeds are an excellent place to start learning about the power of seeds, as they can be grown and harvested so rapidly. Making labels or containers in which to store dry seeds prior to sprouting is a fun weekend project, too.
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