We use cookies to allow us and selected partners to improve your experience and our advertising. By continuing to browse you consent to our use of cookies. You can understand more and change your cookies preferences here.
When you click on a retailer link on our site, we may earn affiliate commission to help fund our not-for-profit mission.Find out more.
You don't need to have greenfingers to be able to enjoy gardening with your children. It's a wonderful way to spend time together that will also give you a more colourful and productive garden.
We may be stuck at home but the weather is sunny and it's spring. What better time to get gardening with your kids. The Which? Gardening magazine experts share their top tips of activities you can do.
For advice about what to do in the garden every month, try Which? Gardening magazine, delivered to your door for just £5.
There's no better way to encourage kids to eat more vegetables than for them to grow them with you. It's too early to sow veg that doesn't like the cold, such as courgettes, runner beans and sweetcorn, but there's plenty of hardy veg and herbs that you can sow now, including:
Many supermarkets sell veg seeds and compost, so you can pick them up with your food shop or order them online for delivery.
For the best results, use a Best Buy compost.
Potatoes are especially good to grow with small children as they're large and easy to handle. They can be grown in pots, so you don't even need a garden.
It's best to use 'seed potatoes' which are sold for growing. Many supermarkets sell them at this time of year, or you can buy them online from suppliers, such as Mr Fothergill's and Thompson & Morgan.
Check our Best Buy varieties of potatoes.
Watch our video about how to grow potatoes.
As well as veg, there are lots of flowers that can be sown now for colour this summer. Easy ones for kids include:
They all have relatively large seeds that are easy for small fingers to handle and they can all be sown either in pots of compost or direct in the ground in the same way you sow veg (see above).
Spring brings lots of flowers, whether they're ones you've grown or just weeds, such as daisies. A fun way of preserving them is to press them in a heavy book.
Get advice on gardening problems at the Which? Gardening helpdesk.