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April 20, 2019 · 8 Comments

Easy Herbs To Grow With Kids

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Easy Herbs To Grow With Kids

Have you ever wanted to know how to grow fresh herbs with your kids? Last year Sylvia and I received an awesome package in the mail from Handy Herbs. I have to be honest, the last time I’d grown anything edible before this was back in New Zealand when I was pregnant. So, I was a little worried that I didn’t have the green thumb anymore. 

Growing fresh herbs in a pot is super easy and simple to do. I sure hope you enjoy this tutorial for growing herbs at home! Enjoy! 

How To Grow Herbs 

When I was pregnant, I purchased a huge compost bag, threw in a load of tomato seeds and to my surprise by the end of the pregnancy there were tons of tomatoes. Not just a few but many and I used them all. It was brilliant. So, I figured why not?!

Fresh Herb Kit

I’ve always wanted to get back into gardening and plan to get a vegetable patch later on this year. The one thing I’ve found a little frustrating recently is when we try to cook new healthy recipes.

Getting the Pots Ready

Growing Herbs Indoors From Seeds 

There are often different herbs and ingredients which need adding. Although we have a good supply of dried herbs, we don’t have fresh herbs. It’s something I’ve never really purchased and not something we budget for.

Fresh Herbs Directions

So, I decided that growing some fresh herbs in the home would be a great start as well as an opportunity to add some goodness to our meals and complete a fun activity with Sylvia.

Getting the Water ready

How To Grow Herbs From Seeds

Not having any experience at growing herbs we received the perfect package. A grow your own herbs kit, with easy to read instructions, easy enough for a child and mother with no prior experience to follow.

Soaking the soil

We had such fun doing this activity and John took some fab pictures as we went about planting our first ever herb plants.

How to Grow Fresh Herbs

Step 1 – Easiest Herbs To Grow

First we got the plant pots ready, found the instruction cards. You will have to pour a liter of water into a large bowl. 

Step 2 – Easiest Herbs To Grow

Then, you will put the compost pellets into a bowl of water. They will need to soak for 10 minutes. Sylvia gave it a good mix to help soften the soil. 

Step 3 –  Easiest Herbs To Grow

Get the seeds ready to go. Each package with the seeds is labeled so you can easily plant them in the right pots. Then, you can use the packets along with the Popsicle sticks to label your pots. 

Step 4 – Easiest Herbs To Grow

The next step we spooned the soil into the four plant pots. You will need to be sure to leave 4 heaps to use after planting the seed. Sylvia then emptied the seeds into each pot and covered them with the remaining soil.

Step 5 – Easiest Herbs To Grow

Once the soil was completed we poured half a liter of water into the reservoir and popped the lollipop sticks in the plant pots.

John then helped Sylvia carry the pot to the windowsill and all we have to do now is turn the pot around once a day and refill the reservoir each week.

How to Make Fresh Herbs

It will take a while for our herbs to grow but we are super excited and Sylvia has taken on the responsibility of turning the plant each day!

Fresh herbs

I hope you enjoyed reading our post. We had lots of fun doing this activity and it was something I’ve been wanting to do for some time.

Pouring the seeds

The Handy Herb Kit was sent to us for to try out in return for this blog post. All opinions are my own. Growing herbs can be easy and simple and something I’m sure you will love. 

Planting our herbs

Check out Handy Herbs for your own kit! If you liked this activity, you may like some of our other gardening posts:

  • Garden Seed Bombs Activity for Kids
  • Fun Ways to Involve Kids in Garden Activities
  • 5 Ways to Inspire Your Kids to Love the Planet

Don’t forget to pin these posts so you can have them later! 

Easiest herbs to grow with kids

About Angela Milnes

Angela Milnes is a Qualified Early Years Teacher who has specialised in Preschool and Kindergarten teaching. She has a wealth of experience teaching young children and is passionate about kids crafts and having fun as a family. Angela has also taught cooking skills and loves to share both family recipes and easy instant pot recipes here on The Inspiration Edit. Follow her on Pinterest!

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  1. Katie (Growing Up KaterTot) says

    September 11, 2015 at 2:12 am

    How fun! I like that all the pots are separated, yet connected into one large piece that you can move around easily. What a nice activity to do with your child and a fantastic learning tool as well! My daughter would love to do this and watch the herbs grow. Great review, Angela! #PositivelyPosted

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    • Angela says

      September 11, 2015 at 10:38 pm

      yes they are a really cool design! I love it and we will be able to reuse them many times hopefully. This was our first attempt with herbs and im excited to say they are beginning to sprout and Sylvia was very excited!

      Angela x

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  2. Emma says

    September 16, 2015 at 9:23 pm

    I really like this! I want to get herby too. Thanks for sharing I am glad to have read it x

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    • Angela says

      September 16, 2015 at 9:35 pm

      it’s a fab activity Emma! We loved it and we plan to try out the recipes once they are grown! I also want to move on to bigger things next year! Tomatoes! Exciting!

      Angela x

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  3. Rebecca U says

    September 17, 2015 at 10:16 am

    This is a really fun idea! I like the lollystick idea to know which is which. My son loves going to the gardent o pick the herbs that we have growing #snotallaboutyou

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    • Angela says

      September 17, 2015 at 6:38 pm

      Sylvia is obsessed with checking the plant every day. We got some more plant gear really cheap, some posts for 30p and items which are being sold off cheap at the end of season and plan to use them in the spring! Exciting! Angela xx

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  4. Elizabeth says

    April 24, 2016 at 1:03 pm

    Lovely post ,its so important to get kids learning to grow food and its cheap too .I usually taste better

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    • Angela says

      April 25, 2016 at 1:02 am

      Thanks Elizabeth. We are planning to grow more herbs this year.

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