Gardening with Your Kids
I love to write about gardening with your kids each summer, especially because I am a self-proclaimed gardening addict. I always try to involve my whole family in this tradition. I’ve also been doing a lot of surfing online about the topic to see if there is something knew that I can learn. This year, I am incorporating some organic vegetables into my array of veggies.
You’ll find some tips about composting, growing tomatoes and ways to involve your children on a previous post titled “Summer Gardening with Your Kids”.
Gardening Resources
This topic is almost endless when looking online, but I’ll mention the resources that I enjoy. Some are related to organic gardening, including sites where you can order organic plants online.
- Burpee.com is a wonderful resource for almost every aspect of gardening…buying plants, seeds, gardening tips & tools, advice and videos. This includes both veggie and flower gardening, organic and not. I LOVE this site.
- The Natural Gardening Company is the oldest certified organic nursery in the USA. You can purchase your seeds and plants online for shipping at the appropriate planting time for your zone.
- Ed Hume Seeds has a great resource for what to grow for a family of four. They offer a seed planting chart. This has been a great help to me.
- If space is an issue, check out How to Grow a Vertical Garden in Raised beds.
- If you live in an area like me, you’ll need to consider a fence to keep the critters out. I found some great tips at OrganicGardening.com. They offer tips for do-it-yourself fencing.
I’ve also found a fantastic blog called “5 Minutes for Mom” and they are giving away Love Your Veggies Books & Garden Supplies. All you need to do is go to the blog and make a comment. How easy is that.
I hope I’ve helped you a bit. It is so important to make gardening a family oriented tradition. We have a great time with it and my boys really love getting dirty.
Let me know if you have any great tips, ideas or other input….even if you have a question, I’d love to hear from you and find you the answer you are looking for.
Thanks and happy gardening!
Rae Lynn @ Kidz Comfort
Win a Parenting Magazine Subscription
While March has an enormous number of “observances” to help people become more aware of what’s going on in the world, we thought we would focus on a few parent / child related observances. For example, March is “Sing with Your Child Month”.
March also includes the following:
- March 5th – Potty Dance Day
- March 7th – Daughters’ and Sons’ Day
- March 12th – Girl Scout Day
- March 17th – Absolutely Incredible Kid Day
- March 18th – Forgive Mom & Dad Day
To encourage reading with and about your children, we thought we would have a contest. Sign up for our newsletter and you’ll be entered to win a one-year subscription to one of the following “Top 10” Parenting Magazines:
1. Family Fun Magazine
2. Parent & Child
3. Parenting – Early Years
4. Parenting – School Years
5. Parents Magazine
Just subscribe to our free newsletter before March 31st and you’ll be entered to win! It’s as easy as that.
Good Luck!
-Rae Lynn @ Kidz Comfort
Final Giveaway #11
Our final giveaway is a doozy! I almost hate to give this away. But, as promised…..
Our final winner will be receiving a Box-Set of 5 CD’s titled “Tired of Nagging? Get Your Kids to Cooperate.“ Compliments of Susan P. Epstein, LCSW, Parent Life Coach. Check out her other products at parentingpowers.com. This is more than a $400 Value!
I am glad I am not the only one who has questions and concerns about my children’s behavior. The winner of this final giveaway, as determined by Random.org, is Reiza!
Congratulations Reiza!
Please come back and visit soon for more interesting posts and comments from lots of interesting people.
2009 New Year Giveaway #11
We’re up to our 11th and FINAL giveaway!
But first…
Congratulations to the winner of our most recent After Holiday Giveaway!
Thank you for all the great replies to our last contest question about your special Valentine celebrations. Our 10th Giveaway Winner is Jean D. who will be receiving A $15 Gift Certificate to Chicks & Cubs, compliments of Cynthia from www.chicksandcubs.com. 
Ok, now to the next and FINAL giveaway…This Box-Set of 5 CD’s titled “Tired of Nagging? Get Your Kids to Cooperate.“ Compliments of Susan P. Epstein, LCSW, Parent Life Coach. Check out her other products at parentingpowers.com. This is more than a $400 Value! You cannot miss out on this one!
My thought of the day: As you may or may not know from previous posts, I have two boys…a 4-year old and a 5-year old. They are polar opposites in most ways. One is high-maintenance, one is laid back. One is artistic, one is more about wrestling and rough-housing. One loves competitive sports, the other hates playing against people because he will risk losing. We’ve had a lot of challenges over the past 5+ years, and I know we have many many more to come. There are a couple phases that have been extremely difficult for us, causing us to actually research the answers to our questions. One was that our first born had tons of sleep issues…always crying, never falling asleep unless he was being held and rocked (although, in hindsight, I’m certain we created this issue). The second biggest issue we’ve had so far is the tantrums. If there is a Guinness Book record for longest and loudest temper tantrum, I am certain that my 5-year old would have won!
This leads to my next question…
Whether you have kids or not, I would love to hear what your issues or questions have been? If you have kids, what were your biggest challenges? If you don’t have kids, but spend time with some one else’s kids, you must have things you’d like to vent about. Just post it here.
If you have a Twitter account, and you want additional entries, just re-tweet and comment here about it.
The deadline for giveaway #11 entry is 11:59pm EST, Thursday February 12th, 2009. To review the rules of our giveaway, please CLICK HERE.
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