The children will be more likely to garden as adults also.
Gardening is a good family pastime,--- to take them away from iPads and ipods etc.

I agree, Caroline.

First, I think this is a really, really good idea. I wish I had started ab out fifty years sooner, an d learned from som eone who knew what she was doing.

But second, I have to admit that every time I see the title of this idea, my reaction is as if it was "Gardening with Kelp Pellets" or "Gardening with Shade Perennials".

Like an ornamental border with a row of tall kids along the back edge, and scatterings of miscellaneous shorter children planted in front.

I'm sorry, my brain probably has a loose connection somewhere.

How about:
Learning about plants with your children.

Or if your own children are grown and the grandkids are not really close enough to use your garden, there may be a child in your neighbourhood who would like to garden. I gave part of my garden to the 5 yr-old across the street whose entire back yard is a swimming pool and whose parents don't garden. She loved it! This year, I hope to keep the local ground hog out of the garden as it beat us to most of the produce. But yes, she LOVED the tomatoes we grew.

Rick, that gave me a good laugh! There were a few times when my veggie garden did look like it was planted with kids, as some neighborhood kids were really intrigued with my tomato seed-saving project, and came over to help. They were helping me pick tomatoes, label containers, squeeze the seeds into the cups, etc. Then I learned one of the boys had never even TASTED a fresh tomato, much less a home-grown one, so I set up a tasting station with different varieties, and they all had a good time "ranking" their favorites. One of those spur-of-the-moment projects that became a good teaching moment!

What a good spur of the moment project!
But how sad that there are children who never get to try fresh veges.

Great project! I bet it not only gets them interested in gardening, but also nature, ecology and caring for living things in general. And what it means to be a good neighbor!

I know one guy who lives where almost no neighbors garden. He noticed that the kids on one side of his yard would raid his Sungold cherry tomatoes on their way to school, stuffing their lunchboxes.

So next year, he put out lots more Sungold plants ... where his yard bordered theirs.

Rick, that is awesome! We used to have neighbors who would help themselves to our blackberries, until we got fungal rust that wiped out the whole patch. My husband was outraged, but I didn't mind, as long as they didn't pick it clean. They were exceptional blackberries!