28 Spring 2025 | edibleseattle.com LET’S GATHER: LET’S GET STARTED: 4. Cover your seeds with soil. Water regularly and watch your Flower Feast grow! 5. Once your flowers are blooming, you can pick them, wash them, and sprinkle the petals or entire flowers on top of salads or salsas. You can even add them into drinks to make them more beautiful and tasty! 1. Clear a space in your garden you’d like to fill with edible flowers. Make sure it’s a spot that gets plenty of sunlight. You might choose to plant your flowers along the edges of your vegetable beds or around the perimeter of your garden. 2. Prepare the soil in this area by watering, digging, and adding finished, finely sifted compost until the soil is loose and crumbly. 3. Scatter the seeds, following the instructions on the seed packets to know how deep and far apart to plant them. • fork • watering can • bucket of finished, finely sifted compost • seeds for edible flowers such as: • nasturtium • calendula/marigold • bachelor’s button/cornflower • violas • borage Many edible flowers are also “reseeding annuals,” which means they will grow, drop their seeds, and then grow again in the same spot, year after year. So if you want them to come back, don’t eat all of them! Make sure you select a place that you’re ready to dedicate to these flowers for a long time. Tip Celebrate Earth Day! Illustration adapted from Kids’ Garden (Barefoot Books), written Whitney Cohen and illustrated by Roberta Arenson | created for family sharing ACTIVITY Planting for a Flower Feast Did you know there are flowers that you can eat? Including edible flowers in your food is not only tasty, but also makes for a beautiful dish! Dig in, explore the garden, and have fun indoors and out with fifty easy-to-follow activity cards www.barefootbooks.com/kids-garden-deck
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