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20+ Fast Growing Seeds for Kids to Grow

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We are ready for spring and for growing, and to start seeing green outside again. Basically we are ready to start gardening again. We looked forward to having a garden when we bought our house and look forward to eating straight out of our garden. We are growing everything from seeds again this year. Most of what we are growing have short germination periods which are great for growing with kids. Choosing fast growing seeds for kids keeps them interested in watching them instead of getting bored and forgetting about the seeds they planted.

Fast Growing Seeds for Kids to Grow

Fast Growing Seeds for Kids to Grow

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We choose seeds based on what we want to eat. My kids will walk into our garden and eat tomato, cucumbers and peas straight from the vine. It is just a bonus that most are very fast growing. We also planted a few different flower seeds as we want to grow them for the bees and because we like how pretty they look planted around the yard.

We bought many of our seeds individually over the last few years, and instead of spending more money to buy plants already growing from a garden center at planting time we decided to grow our own again. My kids are older and a lot more interested in watching the growing process happen.

Starting Seeds Inside

We bought grow lights a few years ago when we bought seeds for the first time for our garden. Amazon has a lot of options to chose from depending on what you need. We bought seed pod trays to create our own little greenhouses to help our plants grow.

Fast Growing Seeds – Vegetables

Tomatoes

Pumpkins

Cucumbers

Beans

Carrots

Beets

Romaine (Lettuce)

Green Onions

Peas

Potatoes

Fast Growing Seeds – Flowers

Sunflowers

Nasturtium

Zinnia

Marigold

Calendula

Morning Glory

Fast Growing Seeds – Herbs

Herbs can be a little trickier for some to grow as they need a little water, everyday. Then again, they can be great for kids that like to water plants.

Basil

Thyme

Oregano

Parsley

Sage

Rosemary

Dill

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Growing a Snack Garden with Your Kids

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Growing a snack garden with your kids is fun, and helps them to learn about health and delicious foods. Focusing on a snack garden adds an element of fun for kids, who isn’t going to love a garden they can eat.

Growing a snack garden is the perfect way to introduce your kids to eating healthy foods because you’re not too likely to be growing chocolate or candies. Right?

Growing a Snack Garden with Your Kids

Growing a Snack Garden with Your Kids

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If you don’t have the ground space to planting a snack garden in your yard try planting container gardens. These are some of our natures snack garden mix of fruits and vegetables.

The more you involve them in the planting process the more likely they are to eat the vegetables you grow.

Snack Garden Plants

Tomatoes

While we of course loved the “regular” or hot house tomatoes my kids preferred the small cherry and sugar tomatoes. They are bite sized and perfect to picking off the vine and popping in your mouth.

Sugar Snap Peas

The peas…. oh there were too few of them please we messed up on the support and they died. But they were amazing. I have great memories of eating sugar peas from my great-grandmothers garden.

Carrots

We bought seeds for some fun colored purple carrots as well as the typical orange carrots ones. Because our ground is very hard packed and clay like we were unable to just pull them out. Instead we had to dig them out, give them a really good wash and then crunch away.

Broccoli and Cauliflower

My first piece of advice is to be aware that critters love broccoli and cauliflower and if you don’t cage them in you won’t get to eat them, we learned this the hard way. Cauliflower was Austin’s request last year and we’ll know better for this year.

Rhubarb

This is the easiest snack you can grow because once you plant it it continues to grow. Just leave a couple stalks when removing others to promote new growth. And remind your children to not eat the leaves as they are poisonous.

Berries

Strawberries and blueberries, raspberries and black berries. I don’t have a lot of experience growing these but the few I had growing last year were eaten every quick and straight from the plant. Have you eaten a warm strawberry fresh from the plant? It’s heavenly.

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