easy vegetables to grow with children?

Yategirl

Mine love their veg and they have been helping me grow stuff since they could toddle, it is a fact of life to them now that we grow our own. Try growing stuff that can be eaten straight from the plant such as peas, cherry tomatoes, grow longer term stuff such as pumpkin (have a competition as to who grows the biggest pumpkin or mask out their name (use masking tape) so that when the pumpkin is fully grown and ripe, their name is a different colour when you peel the tape off) or potatoes (in a tub or in the ground) - it's like treasure when you dig the potatoes up!

nodwah

I agree with you, my two boys are far more likely to eat things thay have grown or helped pick.

they will stand next to a fruit bush and strip it bare!

Having said that I have no luck with cabbages or caullis etc but child A will chew rosemary leaves! (?)

Lotus-eater

Raspberries, carrots, ask them what they want to grow and give them a list of possibles.

Mine will eat young fresh peas btw, loves picking them from the garden and eating straight away, but not cooked ones. Go figure.

sb44

My 10 year old will eat cauli, broc and peas but not by choice!

We are going to have a go at growing some peas, runner beans, dwarf beans etc this year and she says she will try what we grow but not to ask her to try a tomato!

Kids.

:rolleyes:

Mind you, she only tried ice cream a couple of years ago, has never attempted to taste anything other than water and chocolate milk so that is a good thing.

I do ask her to try orange squash or fizzy drinks only to see if she would like them but she isn't interested.

Jack's_mummy

My Ds will only eat lettuce or beans if he has helped to grow and pick them. Amazing the power of playing in the mud lol

katskorner

My 3 year old will eat pretty much everything and he adores eating berries from my new goji berry bush! He loves the allotment too. My 5 year old is far more fussy but will generally eat more things that I grow than if I buy them. He now eats cabbage - loves savoy - since I grew them this year - I was stunned but delighted!