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All types of gardening has grown in recent years into a very interesting hobby for both young and old alike.

Many children these days spend a lot of their spare time in the garden, usually with their own area of the garden allocated to them.

Everything you need for your garden can be bought from your local garden centre, and not just plants, seeds and shrubs but also all your garden tools, some even made just for children.

These tools just for children range from spades and forks to trowels and even small wheelbarrows and the kids love it, helping mum and dad in the garden, it gives them a sense of importance too.

You can even get a small greenhouse for them to grow such things as tomatoes and cucumber for example, imagine their excitement if you were to pay them for what they grew, they could go out and dig up some vegetables for dinner in exchange for extra pocket money.

One of the advantages of getting your children interested in gardening at an early age is that they will often carry on to when they are much older, maybe even keeping them off the streets.

Some people who love gardening but don’t have the space, or enough of it can apply for an allotment, these have been around for years, probably since the 1700s and were at first made available to the poor to grow their own fruit and vegetables to eat.

If you live in a flat you wouldn’t have a garden so you too could also apply for an allotment.

The term Kitchen Garden is a part of your garden that is set aside for growing your own vegetables for your own kitchen cooking.

Usually people will have their lovely lawn or landscaped garden design with flowers and plants they can see from their kitchen window, but often hiding behind a high hedge or garden wall there will be a vegetable garden and probably a greenhouse.

A nice landscaped garden with flowers and shrubs is very nice but you can’t eat flowers, well most of them.

Some people prefer to use the whole of their garden for growing their own produce, especially these days with the cost of buying food.

If you’re just starting out as a gardener it’s really easy to get started, all you have to do is go to your local garden centre, buy some seeds, plant them and watch them grow.

You can easily grow most types of vegetables almost anywhere, you can grow them in a window box or you could have a roof top garden, these are very popular in some parts.

The idea of gardening for food and growing herbs for medicine actually goes back to our prehistory, and then there are the famous hanging gardens of Babylon.