These garden resources for beginners are so helpful to the new gardeners popping up everywhere especially among younger people.
It’s been shown that we benefit from more time outdoors so why not spend time growing something you love.
This post is designed to help beginner gardeners learn the basics and find resources that can help us all garden better
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Top Garden Resources For Beginners
A simple ebook that covers all the basics to growing vegetables for beginners. It’s easy enough ito follow that kids can follow along.
If your struggling to find time, space and budget to garden? This guide has tons on ideas
A full sent of planning sheets for any space you choose to garden in. It also has a sowing calendar, layout planner, what to recycle compost sheet, companion planting and everything you need to make this growing season a success.
You don’t need every tool in the box, you just need to right tools. This list gives you a complete run down of must have tools to keep in your shed.
Quick guide to growing a wide range of fruit on your patio. There’s so many different varieties to try, where will you start?
Growing herbs is a super easy but useful way to start gardening. Find out how you can use your herbs here.
12 plants for kids to grow. From fruit, flowers to vegetables these easy to grow crops are a good place to start for beginners.
Ok once you grow your own patio fruit, what do you do with them? These are some of our favourite berry Recipes to help you get started.
some of our best gardening tips for beginners are included in this popular garden guide for beginners.
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If you don’t want to grow your own fruit you can always forage for it. Apples, raspberries, elderberries, plums and brambles all grow wild here so there is an awesome amount of free food to use.
Keep track of your varieties and plans with a garden journal. Help make improvements as you go and record successes.
A complete beginners guide to getting started. All you need to know to start your own beginner vegetable garden.
Tools – Important Resources For Beginner Gardeners
Some of our favourite tools for gardening with kids. Children respond to ‘real’ tools, all too often, adult tools are too big for children to use effectively, leading to frustration and tears. So if you really want to encourage kids to get out and enjoy gardening, invest in these bright colourful tools now. Remember to get your 10% Off with code GHK10.
Watering Can Kit
Blue children’s watering can, with two fun character hand tools: a trowel and a fork.
The fabulous kit will keep the kids outside doing all those garden ‘chores’, and loving every minute
Gardening kit
This colourful kids gardening tool set contains a watering can, hand trowel, fork and rake. The high-quality, metal tools have a wooden handle with hanging loop. Just the job for helping in the garden, watering the flowers or playing in the sand pit.
Gardening Spade
Good sturdy spade is essential to gardening.
This is a good size for more kids and it’s bright and colourful too.
Garden Trowel
Theres no more useful tool in the garden than a garden trowel and this colourful sturdy trowel with help kids garden with style
Children’s Tool Belt
Your little gardener would be proud to own this set of sturdy tools that comes with their own tool belt The colourful metal tools have smooth wooden handles and the belt has an adjustable strap for a snug fit.
A Dustpan And Brush Set.
A children’s mini dustpan and brush, just like mum and dad’s! Encourage your little helpers to tidy up the garden with this cheerful set. Wooden handles have hanging loops for easy storage. Available in a range of colours.
Reçycled projects To Try While Gardening With Kids
Growing Kit Resources For Beginners
Some of our favourite ways to get kids involved provide a chance to practice something new with everything you need and come with full instructions.
A fun mini greenhouse that’s perfect for growing seeds with children. They can easily see their seeds grow and transform into veg, flowers or fruit. Available from here
Terracotta growing pot containing all you need to grow tomato, strawberry, chilli or carrots. Take a look here
Everything you need to grow your own vegetable plants on your windowsill. Kids and beginners can follow the simple instructions from seed all the way to plate.
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Essential Gardening Clothes For Kids
Gardening can be dirty business and you don’t want to focus on keeping the kids clean so kitting them out with the right clothes can save a lot of stress later.
Gloves
Wellington Boots
These again are must for gardening at any time of year. Boots keep kids feet safe from tools, and stones etc as well as clean and dry. Invest in a good sturdy set like these. And when your finished with them you can turn them into a strawberry planter!!
Splash Suits
Ones like this are a great investments when your gardening with kids. It makes it so much easier to concentrate on having fun when your not freaking out about getting dirty.
Wildlife Gardening Resources For Beginners
Encouraging chdren to connect with wildlife is the first step in creating a more caring world in our future. Check out more wildlife tips and ideas here.
Theres even more fun for wildlife here
Paint Your Own Butterfly House
Encourage beautiful butterflies into your garden and they will help pollinate your garden flowers
Hexagon Bug Hotel
A bright and stylish bee house for harmless solitary bees to lay eggs in. It also helps all sorts of beneficial insects to survive over the winter
This fabulous book is a great starting place for any budding wildlife lover.
Spending time gardening with your kids can be a little daunting for a complete beginner so start all with a few wildlife gardening projects. Help the birds, and hedgehogs with these fantastic ideas.
Encourage your kids to garden can be the best gift they recieve this year.
Check out even more wildlife kits here
More Resources For Beginners
So, there you go. Our Best Garden Resources For Beginners. Now go get out there and grow grow grow. Remember we are alway on hand if you need any help. Just drop us a comment below
Your garden is the extension of your home. Make it a place you can enjoy with your family and friends.