Garden Coloring Pages

• Vegetable patches: rows of carrots, lettuce and beans, each with a name stake.
• Raised beds: wooden boxes filled with soil, which are easier to reach and to weed.
• Tools: a trowel, a hand fork, a rake, gloves and a watering can.
• Sheds and wheelbarrows: the potting shed with tools on the wall, and a barrow loaded with the harvest.
• Greenhouses: glass rooms that trap the sun's warmth so seedlings can start early.
• Garden visitors: ladybugs, earthworms, birds at the bath and a frog by the pond.
• Gardeners at work: planting, watering, digging and picking.

A garden is a team effort, and most of the team is small.

• Bees and butterflies carry pollen from flower to flower. Without them, many plants couldn't make fruit or seeds.
• Earthworms tunnel through the soil, which lets air and water reach the roots. They also turn dead leaves into food for plants.
• Ladybugs eat aphids, tiny insects that suck the juice out of stems.
• Compost is kitchen scraps and garden waste that have rotted into dark, crumbly soil.

A seed needs water and warmth to sprout. Once the first leaves open, it needs light as well. That's why many gardeners start seeds indoors and move the young plants outside after the last frost.

Coloring tips: good garden soil is dark brown, nearly black when wet. Use at least three greens so the rows don't blur together, for example blue-green for cabbage, bright green for lettuce and dark green for bean leaves. Terracotta pots are a dusty orange. Old wooden beds and fences are gray-brown. Paint the watering can any color you like, and draw the water as short blue dashes.