My kids hardly touch vegetables! They used to eat them as baby food but now only my oldest will eat cold broccoli with ranch, the other two won't touch them!  Maybe starting a veggie garden will help! I live in TX so its hard to keep anything alive down here! LOL

I have been very lucky with my daughter, it isn't hard to get her to eat her veggies.  I gave them to her as a baby frequently and then as she got older I hid veggies in the food like adding a package of chopped spinach to a pot of spaghetti sauce, or chopping canned green beans up and adding it to her favorite Macaroni and Hot Dogs.  Now I just put it on her plate and ask her to try it.  Veggies aren't my favorite thing in the world and I have been honest with her about it but I also told her how good they are for you and you never know what you will like so you have to try it and now she will and I reward her by giving her a sugar free popsicle (shhhhh don't tell her they are sugar free )  But my ex-husbands daughter wouldn't eat them for the life of me no matter what I did she would find the veggies and if you tryed to make her eat them she would gag and throw up, but before I met them I don't think she had ever seen a veggie.  I believe you have to start young and keep a positive attitude about veggies because kids follow by example.

We also love eating whatever we grow.  We planted our vege patch, ready for summer (Australia) and the possums have eaten all the tomatoes and basil.   I don't know what to do to deter possums other than cover up the who vege patch at night.

Over here, people say that geraniums keep away snakes - I don't know if it really works. 

I know it sounds crazy, but I've talked to people who have had problems with rabbits in their garden, and they bought these little toy snakes and put them around...and apparently the rabbits are scared of them.  We tried it in our garden & it did help!  We also put up the wire fence around our lettuce, and we had AWESOME lettuce this year!  We ate fresh salads all summer long, it was wonderful.  Too bad here in Wisconsin we can't have a garden all year long.  :(

Ali instead of putting chicken wire over your veggie patch put some kind of plasic covering that has full of holes in it that way the animals won,t get in

I am just getting into organic gardening and in my town there is a program set up with "RURAL KING"  they provide the plot and water so people can grow fruits and veges. I have read that scattering granulated garlic can control pests and certain breeds of dogs run out pests. Boston Terriers and Daushounds are goods for squirrels and rabbits. Raised beds with the chicken wire or window screen attached to rebar  helps to keep pests out. There is a booklet I used to have called the Organic Gardener and it talked about different things you can spray plants to ward off pests, including but not limited to beer, chewing tobacco, baby shampoo, etc. Might be something to look into. Good Luck

We love to garden, especially my daughter, who is now 9 years old.  You wanted to know how to get kids to try different things??  My daughter will eat ANYTHING she helps cook or grow.  I love to cook and she loves to be in the kitchen with me, it is our bonding time.  I have a big herb garden that she goes out to and picks fresh herbs and then makes a trip to the garden....she does come up with some doozies though!  lol  We also home can alot of fresh veggies from our garden and  I had her in the kitchen with a plastic knife at the age of 4 cutting up fresh tomatoes to can.  

I grew up eating fresh veggies from our backyard garden. Now we only have a small patio, and I have not been successful growing anything. :(