Your child’s hands down favorite garden is likely to be the Pizza Garden. For additional fun, plant this one in a pizza wedge shape or round like a whole pie. With one exception, all of the basic pizza ingredients are easily grown at home. Wheat, for the dough, is the one plant that will be more of a challenge. It’s worth adding it to the garden plan just to give your child the complete sense of where his food comes from. If you are ambitious, you can pulverize some of the grains in a food processor or spice grinder to show how wheat becomes flour. You probably won’t have enough to actually make pizza dough but the kids will think it is cool to make a bit of flour! Everything else for a pizza is easy for kids to help plant and tend. The vegetables are onion, garlic, peppers, and tomato. Herbs include oregano, basil, and rosemary.
Popular Garden Themes
Butterfly and hummingbird gardens are the most popular theme gardens; you probably already know many of the plants that attract the butterflies and hummingbirds. Both are attracted to brightly colored flowers, especially those that have a tubular flower shapes and sweet scented nectar like salvia and snapdragons. Other good choices are moss rose, petunia, honeysuckle, and the aptly named butterfly bush.