Montando un huerto urbano con niños pequeños – Setting up a garden with preschoolers and toddlers

huerto urbano con niños pequeños (800x441)


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Si me seguís en las redes sociales seguramente ya sabréis que últimamente hemos retomado nuestro huerto urbano. Era algo que me apetecía mucho hacer porque siempre lo hemos disfrutado mucho pero desde el embarazo de Sara lo teníamos bastante abandonado. Así que hace unas semanas nos pusimos manos a la obra.

Cómo lo hemos hecho?

Antes de explicaros los pasos os quiero dar un par de consejos a tener en cuenta a la hora de montar un huerto urbano con niños pequeños:

Nada de prisas. Os recomiendo reservar toda una tarde o toda una mañana, o bien hacerlo en varios días, pero no tengáis prisa porque al hacerlo con niños os va a llevar más tiempo, y además es mucho mejor disfrutar sin prisas!
Ensuciarse es lo esperable. Si al hacer tareas de jardinería es probable ensuciarse y ensuciar, con niños pequeños es inevitable! Así que poneos ropa vieja o utilizad delantal, y no perdáis los nervios si el suelo empieza a ensuciarse con tierra y agua, recordad que limpiar es una estupenda actividad de Vida Práctica!
Expectativas razonables. Tened en cuenta la edad de los niños, en nuestro caso Alejandro (5 años) participó en todas las tareas y disfrutó un montón, Sara (1 año) estaba bastante a su bola y de vez en cuando se acercaba a curiosear y participaba a su manera, y también disfrutó un montón. Quiero decir que no esperéis que un niño de 18 meses participe todo el rato porque es posible que se aburra y decida hacer otra cosa, lo importante es que si quiere participar le dejemos hacerlo y disfrutemos juntos, pero no nos frustremos si sólo participa durante 5 minutos!
Y ahora ya sí, el paso a paso:

1. Lo primero que hicimos fue colocar las jardineras en el lugar elegido, y asegurarnos de que tuvieran agujeros para permitir el drenaje. Empezamos poniendo una capa para evitar el encharcamiento en caso de un exceso de agua, nosotros hemos utilizado greda volcánica pero también podéis utilizar grava, corteza de pino, arcilla expandida…

2. Sobre esa primera capa pusimos malla geotextil para separarla del sustrato.

3. Nuestro sustrato se compone de un 60% de fibra de coco y un 40% de humus de lombriz (podéis ver más información sobre diferentes sustratos aquí). Primero pusimos los bloques de fibra de coco en las jardineras y los regamos abundantemente para rehidratarlos.

4. Al cabo de un rato alcanzan su volumen total pero nosotros para ayudar un poco fuimos disgregando los bloques a medida que se iban hinchando.

huerto urbano niños - montessori en casa
1- Greda volcánica. 2- Malla geotextil. 3- Hidratando los bloques de fibra de coco. 4- Disgregando los bloques de fibra de coco.
5.  Cuando la fibra de coco estuvo lista, añadimos el humus de lombriz y mezclamos bien (de este paso no tengo fotos porque yo misma estaba con las manos en la masa!) Todo esto lo hicimos una tarde, y dejamos el resto para el día siguiente.

6. Con el sustrato ya listo, sólo nos faltaba plantar y regar un poquito. En las jardineras pusimos las hortalizas y en unas macetas más pequeñas pusimos las plantas aromáticas, las fresas y los rábanos. A continuación os cuento todo lo que plantamos.

7. En las jardineras hemos puesto un sistema de riego muy sencillo; consiste en unos conos de cerámica que toman agua de una botella mediante un tubito. Si sois muy cuidadoso con el riego tal vez no lo necesitéis, pero en verano viene bien tenerlo como apoyo por si algún día se nos olvida regar.

huerto urbano niños - montessori en casa


huerto urbano niños - montessori en casa


Qué hemos plantado?

Hemos utilizado tanto semillas como plantel. El plantel tiene la ventaja de que es más fácil y más rápido que las semillas, y es ideal para principiantes, ya que hay plantas que se cultivan muy fácilmente desde semilla pero hay otras que cuestan bastante y puede resultar frustrante. Pero por otra parte, cultivar a partir de semilla nos permite ver todo el proceso de desarrollo de la planta desde el principio, los niños ven con sus propios ojos cómo a partir de una minúscula semilla crece una planta que luego da frutos de los que podemos volver a obtener las mismas semillas, es un aprendizaje genial poder ver el ciclo de vida completo (el girasol y las alubias son dos opciones muy buenas para que los más pequeños vean el ciclo de vida).

Esto es lo que hemos plantado (en función de la época del año y de vuestras preferencias tal vez queráis plantar otras cosas):

Plantel:

Maíz
Berenjena
Tomates
Zanahoria
Aromáticas (albahaca, perejil, hierbabuena y menta)
Semillas:

Rábanos (se pueden sembrar todo el año y crecen bastante bien a partir de semilla)
Girasol (se puede sembrar incluso hasta Agosto y también es fácil cultivarlo a partir de semilla)
Melón (Junio todavía es buen mes para sembrarlo)
Fresas (no es muy fácil cultivarlas a partir de semilla pero Alejandro se empeñó y vamos a intentarlo)
huerto urbano niños - montessori en casa


Aprovechamos los cartelitos que venían en los plantones para ponerlos junto a cada planta, pero nos queda pendiente hacer unos cartelitos para las plantas que hemos sembrado a partir de semilla, ya os los enseñaré!

Si os interesa este tema os recuerdo que podéis encontrar más actividades para trabajar en el huerto con los niños en mi ebook gratuito “El Huerto Urbano en el entorno Montessori” 

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If you follow me on social networks you probably already you know that we have recently resumed our urban garden. It was something I really wanted to do because we have always enjoyed it but since I got pregnant with Sara we had it quite abandoned. So a few weeks ago we got down to work.

How have we done it?

Before I explain the steps I want to give a couple of tips to keep in mind when setting up an urban garden with little children:

No rush. I suggest booking a whole afternoon or a morning, or do it in several days, but do not be in a hurry because doing  this with children will take longer, and it is much better enjoyed without haste!
Mess is expected. If doing yard work is likely to get messy, with little children it is messier! So use an apron or old clothes, and keep your cool when the floor starts to get dirty with soil and water, remember that cleaning is also a great Practical Life activity!
Reasonable expectations. Keep in mind the age of the children, in our case Alejandro (5 years old) participated in all tasks and enjoyed it a lot, and Sara (1 year old) was mainly hanging around and occasionally participated in her own way, and also enjoyed it a lot. I mean; do not expect that a toddler participates all the time because she will probably get bored and decide to do something else, it is important that if she wants to participate we let her do it and enjoy together, but let’s not get frustrated if a toddler is only involved for 5 minutes!
And now the step by step:

1. The first thing we did was put the containers wher we wanted them, and make sure they had holes to allow drainage. We started by putting a layer to prevent puddling in case of an excess of water, we have used volcanic clay but you can also use gravel, pine bark, expanded clay…

2. On that first layer  we put geotextile mesh to separate the substrate.

3. Our substrate is composed of 60% coconut coir and 40% vermicompost. First we put the blocks of coconut coir in the containers and watered abundantly to rehydrate them.

4. After a while they reach full volume but we went for a little help breaking up the blocks as they were swelling.

5. When the coir was ready, add the vermicompost and mix well (this step I have no photos because my hands were quite dirty!) All this we did in one afternoon, and left the rest for next day.

6. With the substrate ready, we just had to plant and water. In the containers we put the vegetables and in the smaller pots we put herbs, strawberries and radishes. Keep reading to find out everything we planted.

7. We set up a simple irrigation system; It consists of ceramic cones that take water from a bottle through a tube. If you are very consistent with watering you ca probably skip it, but it’s a good idea to have it at leats in summer just in case someday we forget watering.

What have we planted?

We used both seedling and seeds. The seedling has the advantage that it is easier and faster than seeds, and is ideal for beginners as there are plants that are very easily grown from seed but others are quite difficult and it can be frustrating. On the other side, growing from seeds allows us to see the whole process of development of the plant from the beginning, children see with their own eyes how from a tiny seed grows a plant which then gives fruits of which we can regain the same seeds, it’s a great learning to see the whole life cycle (sunflower and beans are two very good options to learn about the life cycleof plants).

This is what we have planted (depending on the season and your preferences you might want to plant other things):

Seedling:

Corn

Eggplant

Tomatoes

Carrot

Herbs (basil, parsley, mint and mint)
Seeds:

Radishes (you can plant all year and grow quite well from seed)

Sunflower (can be sown even in August and is also easy to cultivate from seed)

Melon (June is still good month to sow)

Strawberries (not very easy to grow from seed but Alejandro insisted so we are going to try)
We placed the little signs that came with the seedlings next to each plant, but we still have to make some little signs for the plants that have sown from seed, I will show you when we make them!

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