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Nov

29

Gardening, the Important Lesson for Your Kids

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It would be wonderful if you can enjoy gardening with all your family members. It’s not just about spending a quality time together, but it can make all of us remember that we are connecting with nature. Plant some seeds, watch them grow, seeing the fruits of whole family labor and eating the delicious fruit grown on the trees on the family farm. Even your kids can learn many things from gardening. Other than physical aspects of gardening itself, they will learn about understanding responsibility and knowing about the circle of life.

You can share the gardening work to all your family members. The younger ones can help you to dig holes, place the seeds in it, and cover them up afterwards. In the other hand, the older ones can fill the watering can and sprinkle the plants. As they continue to care for the garden family, you can teach the children about their responsibility on their own plants. Isn’t that a good idea?

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Nov

17

Growing the Peanuts

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From economy point of view, growing peanuts it’s not quite a brilliant idea. Because the price of peanuts is relatively low. But if you like the idea about teaching your kids about gardening, growing peanuts will be a good alternative. Kids usually love the opportunity to create, and believe it or not gardening is a creative art that can easily be developed. Planting the seeds, growing them, harvesting and eat the peanuts together will become a very exciting experience for the whole family.

After you prepare the proper gardening equipment that can be used by your kids and lecturing them a little about gardening, then you can start with planting the peanut with the reddish brown skin on it or even the entire peanut with hull. Make you plantings 1 to 2 inches deep and make sure you plant them in well drained soil keeping the peanuts warm until it germinates which it will in about 7 to 9 days. Once the peanut sends out shoots it will eventually grow upwards of 2 feet tall. It will develop small yellow flowers that will be between ½ inch to 1.5 inches long and the flowers will bloom for only half a day. This is a great watching time for kids because in about 4 days a stem will grow from the flower and head down into the soil. This is where the seed pods will grow, at the end of the stem and those seed pods will be peanuts in the shell. This process usually takes about 90 days from planting, but the original planted peanuts need to stay underground for a total of 140 days before you are to harvest the new crop which is about a total of 130 days from sprout to harvest. So have your peanut planters keep a calendar in their peanut logs.

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Nov

9

Building a Rock Garden

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Have you heard of it? Even if you didn’t know much about plants, you still can make a nice and wonderful garden at your house. If you have a water conservancy problem or are never home to maintain a garden, but still want color, consider building a rock garden. If you already have a garden, you can fill up a bad space by building it. Here are some steps that recommended.

You can start by collecting rocks from all the places you visits. You can create an incredible rock garden and before you place each new rock you should label them with a permanent magic marker on the bottom of each rock. You will remember where they all come from this way. If you want your garden more beautiful, try to collect stones with different colors as much as possible.

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