Johnsons's Garden Centers Text File document - copyright 2002
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Gardening with Kids
July 2001
Jan Decker, Junior Gardeners' Club Coordinator

    Gardening provides some wonderful opportunities for you and your
children. But if it isn't fun, it will be hard to keep their interest.
So that's why we are having a pumpkin growing contestÑfor fun!

    Many of our junior gardeners have already planted their pumpkin
seeds and are tending to their little sprouts. But it's not too late for
your kids to get involved. Use the form below to get the seeds and also
to sign up for the Junior Gardeners' Club newsletters and birthday club.
Extra forms are available in the store if you need to register more than
one child in a family.

    To determine whose summer effort wins the prize, kids should bring
in their largest pumpkin to be weighed and measured between Sept. 24 and
Oct. 15. Even if your child doesn't grow a prize-winning pumpkin the
experience of trying will be fun, plus the pumpkins are still full of
treasures long after the contest is over. Use the pumpkins for fall
decorating; and the hundreds of seeds found inside are great for
counting games, stringing a necklace or roasting for a snack.