Growing potatoes is a fun and easy way to start gardening with children

Kids love to see the "fruits" of their labors. Growing potatoes is an easy way to start gardening with children. Growing potatoes isn't a high-maintenance crop of vegetables, which is important when gardening with children, who often have a short attention span.

When you're planning on growing potatoes be sure to start with seed potatoes, not just any potato you've bought at your local supermarket. When you're gardening with children, you want to be as confident of success as possible so they aren't disappointed at harvest time. Seed potatoes grow into stronger, more resilient plants that will produce a much healthier crop.

Growing potatoes is fun but eating your harvest is the best part of gardening with children.

Potatoes are a vegetable that most kids eat in some form or another. When you're growing potatoes, they can be served baked, mashed, scalloped or even as french fries. One of the best parts of gardening with children is their satisfaction when they get to actually eat the vegetables that they grew.

When you're growing potatoes, plant them in well-drained soil. Potatoes don't need as much water as many other growing vegetables, in fact they do better when they don't get too much water. Watering can become a chore when you're gardening with children – it can get "boring." Potatoes are great because they don't require as much maintenance as some other vegetables.

Gardening with kids can give you a whole new outlook on your vegetable garden. Whether you're growing potatoes, growing corn or any number of other vegetables, gardening with children will help give you some of a child's wonder at how nature works.

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