Making Your Garden Child-Safe

There are few things as lovely as seeing a child taking interest in being outdoors. When you watch them poke around in the mud and pull up worms from the soil, you might cringe because of the mess. However there is something beautiful in watching that moment of discovery on a child's face when they first realize what mud feels like and what dirt looks like and how flowers are in the ground and growing with roots. 

The garden, if you have one, is an asset to your family, but you need to ensure that it's as safe as it can possibly be. Shopping around for sheds near me so that you can store the garden tools, and making sure that water features are appropriately safe is important if you want to have the children playing safely outside. Some of the suggestions we have below may feel like common sense, but there is a lot that people miss when it comes to making the garden safe for children. With this in mind, let's have a look at some of the things that you could do to make sure that your garden is as safe as possible for your children to be.

• Know which plants you should have in the garden. Before you plant anything in your garden you should speak to an expert at a plant nursery. They will be able to let you know which plants you should and shouldn't have in your garden around children or pets. It's no secret that children like to put everything in their mouths, so if they are going to stuff their faces with mud and dirt and plants, you need to ensure that they are safe.

• Add fencing and gates. As well as putting everything in their mouths, children can be little escape artists. If the gate is always open and the fence is falling down, then you're going to have a garden that is unsafe for your children. Keeping the fence up and adding a tall gate with a catch that they cannot open is important. Not only will it keep the children safely playing inside, it will keep anybody out.

• Cover the pond. Enough to have a lovely pond in your garden with fish, it should be covered at all times. You don't have to block out the sunlight or anything, but you do have to make sure that you have netting or something over the top of it so that the children don't fall in. If you do have a pond right now then you could fill it in with concrete and make it a new plant feature rather than having a water feature in the garden. There are Ways and Means around it in education. It is important to teach your children how to be safe around a pond. 

These are just a few tips you could use to keep your children safe in the garden – why not implement them now?