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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Hannah Stephenson

How to encourage green-fingered kids

Half-term beckons and with that, the urge to get your children into the garden, or at least let off steam in the open space.

If you’re short of ideas for National Children’s Gardening Week, be reassured that the kids can still sow vegetables and other seeds now and into the middle of June, which should germinate quickly to produce tasty and colourful salad leaves, edible flowers and healthy veg.

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