Kids Corner
Kingstown Farm, Home and Garden’s toy department inspires a kid’s love of animals, tractors and gardening. Breyer Horses, Schleich animals and John Deere toys are always stocked. We also have puzzles, water bottles, gardening tools, and wheelbarrows. We are bringing in new toys all the time.
We have store animals that live here including Honey our store rabbit, Petunia and Victoria, pygmy goats that kids can feed, chickens and fish in our garden pond. We also have two adorable cats, Cephus and Kit-Kat.
Our store welcomes families and loves to have kids. Saturdays during the spring and fall we have kids’ activities in the garden center. We also post kids’ gardening activities to do at home on this site quarterly.
Kids Gardening / Family Gardening at Home
Pizza Gardening
- Start with cultivated soil and add organic matter such as Leaf Gro or compost
- Plant a circle shape garden in full sun
- Divide the circle into six equal wedges (Can be done with sticks and string)
- Plant two vegetables and three herbs
- Oregano: a perennial herb, plant 2-3 plants in one wedge, can be used fresh or dried
- Italian parsley: a biennial herb, plant 3 plants in one wedge
- Onions: a vegetable, can be planted in seed sets
- Peppers: An annual vegetable green, sweet bell or if you like it spicy a hot variety
- Paste: vegetable, a good paste tomato is Roma (add some Espoma Tomato Tone to ensure good growth)
- Basil: An annual culinary herb, plant 2 or 3 plants
- Add one inch of shredded hardwood to keep weeds down and moisture in.
Water if we do not receive one inch of rain in a week once plants are established. - Keep a garden journal with notes about your experience and pictures as well.