Rubber Mulch Blog

A lot of people will tell you that for your kids and even yourself to have fun in the garden, whilst learning about gardening, you need to get dirty and covered in soil. Well this does not have to be the case at all, in fact you can teach your kids how to garden without even using real plants.

That is stupid, you may say, but let me impart you with something that happened to me and my vegetables. One day while my nephew was at my house I asked if he knew where carrots and potatoes came from, his answer was to say that they came from the freezer or a shop. I thought right, let’s go outside and I will show you where they really come from, and this is where the trouble started.

No quicker had I shown the little rascal the vegetables I had so lovingly cared for, had he ripped half of them out of the ground and with his cheeky smile looked up at me and asked where the rest of them were. I wondered what he was on about, until I saw what he had pulled out the ground. The tops of the plants laid beside him and the vegetables where still stuck in the ground, by the time we had extracted the vegetables, we where plastered in mud.

So when my sister came to pick him up, you can guess who got it in the neck. When I had explained what happened she told me that my nephew already knew where vegetables came from. Did you show him or tell him, I asked, as they don’t have a big enough garden. To my surprise, she had shown him and this is how she done it.

Buy some rubber mulch, enough to lay quite deeply in a patch in the garden, purchase or use some plastic vegetables and place them in the rubber mulch, then you can show your kids where vegetables come from, without getting them yourself and the vegetables in a right state.

You can do this indoors or outdoors, so you don’t even need a garden, just something to contain the rubber mulch and I tell you what, the next three year old I teach about vegetables, I’m doing it!!