Kids Seasonal Garden Planner – VKZ Education Packet Companion

Description

A garden can produce fun crops, like a salsa garden and lovely leafy greens and root vegetables! This kit can help you plan, plot and harvest your garden space. If you have littles, a garden scavenger hunt is fun to finish after tilling the soil and putting in your favorite fruits and veggies.

How to Plant a  Fall Garden

There are many benefits to a fall garden. It gets kids out in the beautiful fall weather to explore and learn about nature and growing their own crops of delicious, healthy foods. Gardening with kids in the desert is a lot of fun when you know what and when to plant.

Look at this list of crops that do well in a fall garden in the desert.

You can know when and what to plant by looking at the number of days to maturity the vegetables you plan to harvest will need. For instance, plan to have the seeds mature within 15 weeks so you can harvest around the last week of November.